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Doctor Who: ‘Lux’ Review – Season 2 Episode 2

1950s Miami, a spooky theatre, and an even spookier – animated – baddie. Well it could only be another big creative swing from Russell T Davies in the second episode of Doctor Who titled Lux. The introductory episode shackles have been shaken off and the doctor and Belinda are getting …

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‘MobLand’ Season 1 TV Review: All The Classic Mob Tropes, But More Fun

British gangster content has become a popular pastime for entertainment media enthusiasts. There’s a heightened quality that’s proven uproariously entertaining for viewers. British gangster classics such as Snatch, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, and the old-school The Long Good Friday proved this correct. One commonality amongst some …

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‘Murderbot’ Season 1, Episode 4: Escape Velocity Protocol

Now here is where things get very good. There’s a sense of humour in Escape Velocity Protocol which we haven’t seen before, just as we haven’t seen violence this serious in Murderbot before. But the main issue here is the dichotomy between the world as Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) understands it …

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‘Murderbot’ Season 1, Episode 3 Review: Risk Assessment

We’re off to the races! Can free planets handle themselves? Can Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) stand to be “stuck with these people and their pheromones in a small craft”? Although for someone who claims not to care about people, it sure does spend a lot of time paying close attention to …

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‘Murderbot’ Season 1, Episode 2 Review: Eye Contact

The six hippie scientists from the non-corporation planet that Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) is tasked with protecting on their mining mission are as follows: Mensah (Noma Dumezweni), the admired mission leader, parent of seven, and terraforming expert who is secretly prone to panic attacks Pin-Lee (Sabrina Wu), the non-binary lawyer and …

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‘Murderbot’ Season 1, Episode 1 Review: FreeCommerce

The eponymous hero of this new TV show Murderbot, based on the first of The Murderbot Diaries series of novels by Martha Wells, is strictly speaking a cyborg. It – though sometimes its clients misgender it as a he – has a metallic structure covered with cloned human flesh, including …

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‘Carême’ Season 1, Episode 6 Review: Trompe l’oeil

Well. This is the darkest episode yet of Carême and where almost all of the various plot points from earlier in the season have finally converged. Our hero Antonin (Benjamin Voisin) finally has it drilled into his skull not only that actions have consequences, but also that he is not …

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‘Carême’ Season 1, Episode 4 Review: Buy the Crown!

On the one hand, this is the weakest episode yet of Carême, full of characterisations that are regrettable cliche. On the other, director Matias Boucard, cinematographer Julio Ramón Ribeyro and editor Jean-Baptiste Beaudoin managed to create a mood that makes palpable both the price of power and the cost of …

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Doctor Who: ‘The Robot Revolution’ Review – Season 2 Episode 1

We’re well into Ncuti Gatwa’s era as the fifteenth Doctor, and a new series kicks off with The Robot Revolution. With Ruby Sunday having departed at the end of the last series, the Doctor is about to meet a new companion who he can take on even more adventures through …

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‘Andor’ Season 2 Episodes 10-12 Review: Make It Stop, Who Else Knows?, and Jedha, Kyber, Erso

BBY 1 is here. Concluding Andor’s second season with the events of Rogue One imminent was always going to happen, but it takes an explosive set of events to get news of the Death Star to the Rebellion’s headquarters on Yavin, and thus to send Cassian (Diego Luna) off with …

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‘Andor’ Season 2 Episodes 7-9 Review: Messenger, Who Are You?, and Welcome to the Rebellion

Once again, Andor Season 2 moves one year later. When the clock rolls forward to BBY 2 at the start of Episode 7, Messenger, Cassian (Diego Luna) is on Yavin itself, working with organised and rapidly mobilising Rebel forces rather than just as the mercenary of Luthen (Stellan Skarsgard). Of …

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‘Carême’ Season 1, Episode 3 Review: A Recipe for a Disaster

Everybody clearly had a wonderful time making this episode of Carême, in which they either very politely make vicious threats to each other, or create a colossal mess. Best of all, nudity! Sorry, this is France: nudité. One bottom belongs to a male extra who has evidently just participated in …

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