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Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Gentleman’s Name Is Gorgon’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans…Whoever keeps coming up with these taglines needs reprimanding. Gorgon is not even the central focus of this episode and in fact gets less screen time than he deserves. That the writers have seen fit to bless him with a slightly expanded backstory does nothing to engender […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Faithful’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Supergirl season 3…This is the most rounded episode of the season so far. Low on saccharine, thoroughly thought-provoking and packed with pathos alongside a good balance of set pieces. Touching on the repercussions of Kara’s actions over the last two years, it taps into back history rewarding audiences […]

The Orville Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Majority Rule’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Orville…Written by Seth MacFarlane this episode has more in common with Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror than anything else. Referencing ‘Nosedive’ from season three The Orville passes comment on our smartphone driven way of life, without lessening the impact with levity. Taking a cue from the feature film […]

Gotham Season 4 Episode 6 Review – ‘Hog Day Afternoon’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Gotham season 4…Apart from being a play on words which recalls the classic film with Al Pacino and John Cazale, ‘Hog Day Afternoon’ bears little resemblance to that heist movie. Focus is very much on dirty cops, femme fatales, murdered authority figures and one man in a hog […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Something Inhuman This Way Comes’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans…It has taken five weeks for Inhumans to amount to more than a fragmented mess of scenes, effects and paper-thin character arcs. Thankfully after trawling through the mire of irrelevance, wasted opportunity and needless segues we reach something positive worth mentioning. This episode has pace, broadens character, […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Far from the Tree’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Supergirl season 3…A lesbian wedding shower might be a first for American network television but that is just a smoke screen for something more contentious. As the tagline suggests family plays a big part either through reconciliation, repressed prejudice or shared memories, as Supergirl taps into emotional narratives […]

Gotham Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Blade’s Path’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Gotham season 4…This week was more for the comic book aficionados than those after straightforward entertainment. For the first time in a while I had to look up references for Gotham rather than going on pure narrative twists and turns. My reasoning being the emergence of Solomon Grundy […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Make Way For… Medusa’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans…There is a reason why Inhumans continues to nosedive in the ratings. It fails to engage, lacks logical narrative reasoning and on top of that is frustratingly fragmented. Our king and queen Medusa and Black Bolt are standoffish, stoic, bossy, slightly condescending and two-dimensional, while Maximus, Crystal, Karnak […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Triggers’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Supergirl season 3…Things start off light and fluffy in National City this week, as we get momentary flashbacks, a montage of morning couples and a semi-conscious Kara dreaming of her the missing Mon-El. Thankfully events soon take a darker turn as themes of grieving, personal boundaries and rites […]