Martin Carr reviews the twenty-first episode of Supergirl season 3… Beyond The Wizard of Oz references there is a sense of further superhero padding as we build towards the finale next week. Montages, incidental music and happy faces abound as we bid farewell to Supergirl knowing full well that she will be returning by episode […]
Supergirl Season 3 Episode 22 Review – ‘Make It Reign’
Martin Carr reviews the twenty-second episode of Supergirl season 3… Redemption in televisual terms is not normally centred round seismic shifts, tectonic anomalies or terraforming land masses. Murderous villainy, rampaging covens and battles over valuable blood types are also not commonly associated with such things. By definition redemption implies forgiveness, a coming together and understanding […]
Supergirl Season 3 Finale Review – ‘Battles Lost and Won’
Martin Carr reviews the season 3 finale of Supergirl… Fiery pits of molten magma, villainous heretics melting like cartoon witches and time travelling antics are just a taste of this season three finale. There are also numerous emotional segues which involve teary eyed hugging, navel gazing aplenty and emotive moments with wistful pauses. In short […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘Angelville’
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Preacher season 3… Coated in a sheen of Louisiana voodoo, seeping sultry from pores coated in Southern sweat and welcoming us back with plantation melodrama, this third go round shows potential. Penned by Breaking Bad alumni Sam Catlin and featuring Michael Slovis behind the camera, ‘Angelville’ cross cuts […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Sonsabitches’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Preacher season 3… Extracting a soul appears to be easy involving wheels, levers and foot pumps coupled with numerous lengths of rubber tubing and eager operatives in tow to hold down poor unfortunates. Throw in the needles, screaming, unsterilized insertion of blunt metals through paper-thin skin and you […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Gonna Hurt’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Preacher season 3… Down in the darkness they run an unlicensed fight club with a difference. Donning his trademark top hat all battered, burnished and soiled with the souls of those long passed, Jesse Custer beckons you in. Participants are chained, malnourished, consigned to purgatory and looking for […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Tombs’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Preacher season 3… Choke chained cannon fodder for the overly enthusiastic fist fighting farm hand awaits anyone who fails to pay their debts in Angelville. Welcomed in by the boyish charms of a teenage ringmaster who watched too much Something Wicked This Way Comes, episode four delivers nut […]
Preacher Season 3 Episode 5 Review – The Coffin
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Preacher season 3… Soft shoe shuffling Lords Almighty complete with boss eyes, bad teeth and incoherent mumblings compete for screen time opposite obese potentates and John Wayne spirit animals. Black and white hallucinations, Monty Python references and grave side confetti litter this forty minutes of abstract television mixing […]
Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Severance’
Martin Carr reviews the series premiere of Castle Rock… With both Stephen King and producer J.J. Abrams steering the ship of Castle Rock there was much to be hopeful for when it finally landed. Drawing from a literary career and mine of characters which shows no sign abating, Castle Rock takes King’s cannon and cherry […]
Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Habeas Corpus’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Castle Rock… Conviction and the power of belief is a dangerous thing. Suicide attempts, softly spoken sons of hell fire and social anxiety shut-ins are par for the course. There is a stagnating malaise which permeates this fictional place and weighs heavy on everyone. More murder mystery and […]
