Ever watched one of those news broadcasts after something catastrophic has happened, where the reporter tries to become a poet, describing events in emotive, melodramatic prose, restarting the obvious again and again, never reaching a conclusion or making a valid point? Well, Torchwood: Miracle … [Read more...]
Torchwood: Miracle Day – Episode 3 – Dork Review
The third week of Torchwood is upon us, and I think we’ve got the basic point now. The Torchwood gang, all two of them, have arrived in America and recruited two discarded CIA operatives to make themselves feel less lonely. Now they must investigate why people are no longer dying. So, with ten … [Read more...]
Torchwood: Miracle Day – Episode 2 – Dork Review
After a first episode that was universally acclaimed as alrightish, Torchwood resumes with a poisoning, a TV appearance and a clunky melodrama moment at the end. And believe it or not, only one of those features Captain Jack Harkness. So does this constitute an hour of excitement? You’d think so, … [Read more...]
Torchwood: Miracle Day – Episode One – Dork Review
After a few years off, Torchwood is back to pass the time while we wait for the second half of Doctor Who. And it has been controversially Americanised too – whereas Who merely set a couple of episodes there, the new Torchwood is a co-production with the US channel Starz and (even more fanbaitingly) … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War – Dork Review
This is the mid-series finale of Doctor Who. Promising us a resolution to last week’s uber-cliffhanger, not to mention the River Song mystery that has run for literally years, it would be helpful if this was brilliant, wouldn’t it? After teasing us with subplots for so many weeks, neutering the … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Almost People – Dork Review
In the second part of Doctor Who’s putty-kneading adventure, our hero must persuade the nasty humans to make nice with a bunch of (doppel)gangers, including one of himself. This show doesn’t paint a nice picture of our species, does it? I’ve read the Daily Mail, I know some people suck, but … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Rebel Flesh – Dork Review
After last week’s loving homage to the hero’s habit of talking to his car, this week Doctor Who gets back to basics and brings us a proper adventure. You guessed it, the cast run around an abandoned building in Wales with some people in prosthetics chasing them. It’s the first of a two-parter, so … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Doctor’s Wife – Dork Review
Last night’s Doctor Who featured a famous face: noted fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, of Sandman, American Gods and Stardust fame. Well, it didn’t feature his actual face, although you can see that in Doctor Who Confidential. But still, he wrote the episode, which is exciting for dorks everywhere. So … [Read more...]
Psychoville: Series Two – Dork Preview
Surreal horror-sitcom Psychoville returns, after becoming a cult hit in its first run. I loved it, and I don’t even have enough grounding in horror cinema to get half the references to horror movies. Ratings were not necessarily amazing, but pleasingly the BBC has given Reece Shearsmith and Steve … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: The Curse Of The Black Spot – Dork Review
Arr, shiver me timbers, parrots, skulls, yo ho ho, bottle of rum, pieces of eight, peg legs, silly hats, rubbish Disney trilogies, other pirate jokes. Now that’s out of the way, it’s time to review this week’s Doctor Who, in which the regular gang finally stop fretting about the uber-plot … [Read more...]
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