MARK DAVISON

Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 9 – Night Terrors: A Review

5th September 2011 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I went into this episode with decidedly mixed feelings – the new Who hasn't had the best track records when it comes to modern day domestic drama (remember Fear Her? And I'm not looking forward to the upcoming follow-up to last year's The Lodger), but I quite like Mark Gatiss, even if he was responsible for last year's Daleks-by-numbers episode. The line-up of guest actors didn't really inspire confidence either...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 8 – Let’s Kill Hitler: A Review

5th September 2011 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

This mid-season break has really thrown off my timing, hence the lateness of this review (in my defense I'm not one of those 'legitimate' TV critics who get to watch and write about this stuff in advance, I wish I was though as it would mean that I'd be getting paid for coming up with this nonsense). Although it did provide me with the opportunity to blog about a series...

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The Hour – Episode 6: A Review

25th August 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I think this whole series can be summed up with one word – actually not even a word in fact, but rather a mere sound, and that sound is 'meh'. Despite having an impeccable cast, and being handsomely filmed and designed (the anachronisms in the script have been written about in far more depth by people more knowledgable of the period than me, but the accounts of the details the...

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The Hour – Episode 5: A Review

19th August 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I suppose at least last week’s backwards step of an episode at least meant that The Hour was going somewhere – even if it was in the wrong direction – this week’s was just static. Quite literally in places as there was an awful lot of watching people watching TV (if the Mad Men comparison can be invoked again that’s something that that show did much better, possibly because the...

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The Hour – Episode 2: A Review

1st August 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

As if the temptation last week to write snarky comments based on the title wasn't hard enough to resist ('The Hour? It felt more like three'), this time there was the matter of bad reviews to avoid. Not reviews for the programme itself (which, seem to have been quite universally unimpressed - it's always slightly alarming to be on the same side as one of Peter Hitchins' Daily Mail columns,...

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The Hour – Episode 1: A Review

25th July 2011 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

It's very difficult to form an opinion of a TV show based on the first episode, even more so when you go into it with some very strong preconceptions. Which inevitably turn out to be pretty much wrong.

We were all agreed that The Hour was going to be the British Mad Men weren't we? It may have pointed out that it was set in the fifties rather than the sixties...

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Doctor Who Series 6, Episode 2 – Day of the Moon: A Review

4th May 2011 | 11 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

I was definitely thinking that at the start of this week's episode – they'd set so much up with last week's cliffhanger and then decided to jump ahead three months later. But if there's one thing I've learnt from Steven Moffat's previous Who episodes it's not to fight his (time) loopy approach to story structure. I'm not sure if the missing three months (in...

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The Crimson Petal and the White – Episode 3: A Review

21st April 2011 | 4 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Now that I've accepted the fact that they're not trying to capture the wit of the book (the only amusing thing in this week's episode was William suddenly sporting a thick moustache – and actually it looked pretty good), I'm enjoying this series more and more. This week's instalment was very claustrophobic, taking place mainly in the Rackham house, and for the most part consisted of characters going up and...

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Mad Men Season 4, Episode 11 – Chinese Wall: A Review

22nd November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

It looks like all the plot machinations in last week's episode are already paying off (a surprisingly quick turnaround by Mad Men's standards), and as an added bonus Peggy was back as well this week (apparently the previous episode is the only one not to feature her in it). Well, not much happened with Lane as he was still over in London - but he was included in events thanks...

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