Gary McCurry reviews the sixth episode of The Newsroom season 3… Friends, Cheers, and more recently, True Detective. These shows all come with an unforgettable theme song. I mean, who hasn’t done the claps during “I’ll Be There For you” or sang along to the immortal lyrics “making your way in the world today takes […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Felling Tree with Roots’
Shaun Munro reviews the seventh episode of Iron Fist… We’ve now reached the mid-way point in Iron Fist‘s run, bringing to an end the batch of episodes that were screened to critics ahead of release day. Will the latter seven episodes indicate an upswing in quality for what has been a rather underwhelming Netflix Original so […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Under Leaf Pluck Lotus’
Shaun Munro reviews the fifth episode of Iron Fist… An unexpected sojourn into New York’s grim heroin trade presents a disturbing, propulsive start for Iron Fist‘s fifth episode, bringing a welcome grit to the table that’s been largely missing from the series so far. Character development has been a real bugbear up to this point, but […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Immortal Emerges from Cave’
Shaun Munro reviews the sixth episode of Iron Fist… Iron Fist‘s sixth episode is directed by Wu-Tang Clan leader and martial arts aficionado RZA (who, in a probably-not-too-coincidental turn, directed 2012’s entertaining martial arts flick The Man with the Iron Fists), and what a difference it makes to have a clear fan of the genre putting his all […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch’
Shaun Munro reviews the third episode of Iron Fist… After a mediocre season premiere and flat-out bad second episode, Iron Fist hopes to change things up as it swaps out writer Scott Buck and director John Dahl for Quinton Peeples (Flashforward, 11.22.63) and Tom Shankland (House of Cards, Luke Cage) respectively. From the outset, things are definitely […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Eight Diagram Dragon Palm’
Shaun Munro reviews the fourth episode of Iron Fist… Surprise, surprise, Danny survives his climactic tumble out of a window in one of the more transparently tension-free cliffhangers in recent TV history. Though this episode in fact signifies a rather dull downturn for Danny, at least he has an interesting meet-up with Harold at the beginning, resulting […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Shadow Hawk Takes Flight’
Shaun Munro reviews the second episode of Iron Fist… It’s certainly a bold strategy for a superhero TV show to confine its protagonist to a prison in its mere second episode, and in this case it’s a gamble that ultimately fails to pay off. At this point in Iron Fist, viewers probably want to see […]
Iron Fist Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘Snow Gives Way’
Shaun Munro reviews the first episode of Iron Fist… Iron Fist arrives on Netflix today amid the bad-PR double-whammy of whitewashing accusations and a fleet of negative early reviews, but for those prepared to keep an open-mind, can the streaming giant’s fourth Marvel show still deliver the goods? Well, it seems to get one thing right […]
Fargo Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Law of Vacant Places’
Shaun Munro reviews the first episode of Fargo season 3… The painful 16-month wait since Fargo‘s second season concluded is finally over, and while not returning to screens with quite the same surging electricity of the two prior premieres, “The Law of Vacant Places” is nevertheless a rock solid introduction to Minnesota’s latest batch of loveable low-lives. The season […]
Fargo Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Principle of Restricted Choice’
Shaun Munro reviews the second episode of Fargo season 3… If Fargo‘s season premiere left a prevailing feeling of deja vu, the follow-up moves a little further away from the familiar, even if the key beats are still distinctly Fargo, and this is very much the lethargic second episode the show has essentially made its signature […]
