TV Reviews & Essays

Here you will find a centralised hub for all of the TV reviews & essays on this website & We Made This for ease of access…

Black Mirror

• Season 4 – Review 
• Bandersnatch

Doctor Who

• Christmas Special 2017: Twice Upon a Time – Review 
• Season 12 is Regenerating… Back Into Itself
• Revolution of the Daleks (Review)

Men Behaving Badly

• Seasons 1 + 2 
• Seasons 3 + 4 
• Seasons 5, 6 + Last Orders

One Foot in the Grave

• 1×01 – Alive and Buried
• 1×02 – The Big Sleep
• 1×03 – The Valley of Fear
• 1×04 – I’ll Retire to Bedlam
• 1×05 – The Eternal Quadrangle
• 1×06 – The Return of the Speckled Band

Star Trek

• Star Trek is at a cinematic crossroads – which path should it take? 
  • Star Trek: Voyager
    • 25th Anniversary Personal Retrospective
  • Star Trek: Discovery
    • Into the forest we go: Star Trek, Discovery and the first frontier
    • Season 1 – Reflections on the Journey Star Trek is Boldly Going… but to where? 
    • Fandom, Star Trek: Discovery and its Dark Reflection
    • Season 2 – Oh, Brother!
    • First Impressions: That Hope Is You
    • Season 3 – That Hope Was You
  • Star Trek: Picard
    • Nostalgia & Star Trek: Picard, Discovery and the Future 
    • Making it So: the Return of Jean-Luc Picard & Star Trek’s Nostalgic Future
    • A 24th Century Worth Fighting For – Season 1 Analysis
    • The Dark Veil (Book Review)
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks
    • Second Contact and First Impressions
    • Season 1 – The Cool, Scrappy Underdogs

The Crown

• The Efficient and the Dignified (Season 1)
• The Price of Marriage (Season 2) 
• The State of the Monarchy (Season 3)
• The Ladies Not for Turning (Season 4)

Westworld

• When did Humans become the Black Hats of Modern Fiction? Westworld, The Walking Dead & Encroaching Dystopia 
• Westworld: The Ongoing Struggle with Non-Linear Storytelling
• Westworld Season 2 reminds me of Lost… and that’s OK

Season / Series Reviews

• After Life (Season 1)
• Cobra Kai (Season 3)
• Cuckoo (Season 5 – 2019)
• Dracula (BBC Mini-Series – 2020)
• Extras (Series Review)
• Fleabag (Series Review)
• Good Omens (Limited Series – 2019)
• His Dark Materials (Season 1 – 2019)
• Lovecraft Country – ‘Sundown’
• Lovecraft Country (Season 1 – 2020)
• Luke Cage (Season 2 – 2018)
• The Mandalorian (Season 2 – 2020)
• The Many Lives of Alan Partridge: Exploring Britain’s most enduring comic creation
• The Sopranos: The American Nightmare
• Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Season 1 – 2018)
• Treadstone (Season 1 – 2019)
• Russian Doll (Season 1 – 2019)
• Years and Years (Limited Series – 2019)

Miscellaneous Pieces

• A Slayer Reborn: Buffy and the Reboot Question 
• Arrested Development: Can we separate Art from the Artist?
• BritBox: Local Telly for Local People
• Don’t Mention the Comedy: Fawlty Towers and Reactionary Cultural Politics
• From Wars to Who: our favourite franchises are evolving – why can’t their fans evolve with them?
• Marvel Malaise: Jessica Jones S2 and the Pacing Problem
• Roseanne: Social Responsibility on Television
• Roy-al Dysfunction: Succession and the Self-Destructive Dynasty
• Six Seasons and (No) Movie (Yet): Reflections on Community
• Starz in Your Eyes: Counterpart and the Dawn of the Streaming Wars
• Stranger Things, Lost and the sudden left turn
• The Curious Case of Jennifer Garner
• The Great British Bake Off is exactly what we need right now
• The Handmaid’s Tale: Has 1990’s TV Paranoia Returned?
• The League of Gentlemen’s Brexit Britain: why the old guard TV shows are returning now
• The Sense of no Ending: The Walking Dead and sticking the landing