It’s around now – well, truth be told, it should have been a number of days ago – that I passed a third-episode verdict on Flash Gordon. However, as we all know from the clearly defined rules of The Carusometer, if there’s a sudden change in quality, either upwards or downwards, we have to hold off until episode five before deciding a show’s final rating.
In Flash‘s case, episode three was a marked improvement on the first couple of episodes. The show’s now going for more or less full-on comedy, the characters are improving, Mongo is getting a bit more alien – the only thing that hasn’t improved is Ming, who I think simply misses having a throne.
So episode five it’ll be before the final ruling comes in. Unlike Ming, we’re merciful round here.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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