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Supergirl Season 2 Finale Review – ‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’

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Martin Carr reviews Supergirl’s season 2 finale…Silver Kryptonite is a bitch. Turns up at the most inconvenient time to turn your best friend bad, best cousin evil and then make said person into an arse kicking force of nature. So it begins with our grandstanding, all singing, all dancing finale to season two of Supergirl. […]

American Gods Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Git Gone’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of American Gods…Convention kicks in for twenty minutes before ‘Git Gone’ gets a dark arse swagger on, reminding anyone with doubts that American Gods is far from finished making headlines. Re-conditioned corpses, Egyptian deities and boatload of bug spray keep this relationship origin story away from genre territory. Visual […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 19 Review – ‘All Will Be Judged’

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Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Gotham season 3…Pigeons are coming home to roost, schemes are being uncovered and two villains form a truce for the purposes of escape and murder at a later date. There is indeed a dark vein of humour running through Gotham as we approach the final few episodes. Bloodletting, […]

American Gods Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Head Full of Snow’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of American Gods…Losing none of its ability to visually stun three weeks in ‘Head Full of Snow’ weaves a narrative dance around its unsuspecting audience. Exploring religious fables, physical congress with mythical beings and modern-day attitudes towards a search for identity. Intercutting short story vignettes, with our central narrative […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 18 Review – ‘Light the Wick’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighteenth episode of Gotham season 3…A cavalcade of familiar faces continues to emerge this week as Gotham gains momentum. There is crazy arse ex-Captain Barnes released into the fray as infected loony tune The Executioner, revelations of the medical variety as well as pot plants, coma cases and lots of fighting […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 17 Review – ‘The Primal Riddle’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventeenth episode of Gotham season 3…Where last week lacked brio, vim and vigour Gotham episode seventeen kicks in with some high calibre villainy at work. Whether we are talking about the increasingly shady Jim Gordon, an army freaks Penguin is bringing together or the illustrious Court of Owls. Each one is […]

Supergirl Season 2 Episode 20 Review – ‘City of Lost Children’

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Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Supergirl season 2…Family ties, fatherly bonds, disillusioned heroes and surrogate parental figures all loom large and play an extensive role in this week’s Supergirl. Beyond the plotting of Rhea we get interlinking familial feelings with virtually every character, whereby James, Mon-El, Lena and Hank all experience their own epiphany. […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 16 Review – ‘These Delicate and Dark Obsessions’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Gotham season 3…There is a reason why Gotham and Supergirl dropped to their lowest ratings last week. Shortcomings in the latter are hopefully obvious from my review for episode nineteen entitled ‘Alex’, while a ratings dip for Gotham remains puzzling even upon closer examination. Now there are those who […]