Film
British TV
US TV
Film
British TV
US TV
In the UK: Saturday 21st May, 6.45pm, BBC1/BBC1 HD. Available on the iPlayer
In the US: Saturday 21st May, 9pm/8c, BBC America
Erm, yes. Doctor Who. It’s running up and down corridors, while threatened by a bad special effects enemy generated through odd science and with poor motivation, isn’t it?
Sigh. I wasn’t expecting much from Matthew Graham after Fear Her, and given the last non-Moffat Moffat-years two-parter was the dreadful The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, I wasn’t expecting too much from this either. And there were some nicely creepy bits, some decent direction, some decent acting and some good ideas underneath it all. Unsurprisingly, given this was Matthew Graham (co-creator of Life On Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus So I Won’t Have Any Good Ones In My Show), Rory actually came out of this quite well and didn’t come across as a total sponge for once – he didn’t even die once – while Amy got precisely bugger all to do except scream.
But largely, this was an extremely boring episode where not much happened except people running up and down corridors in a slight homage to The Thing/The Clonus Horror. Worse still, come 20 minutes, I’m not just looking at the clock thinking "Oh, God, we’ve got another 25 minutes of this", I’m looking at it thinking "Oh, God, we’ve got another one of these next week as well."
Expectations: met.
However, your mileage may vary, so leave a comment or a link to a review on your own blog.
PS Is it just me or if you’re going to have a story arc that runs across an entire season, it doesn’t count having the same reference in every single week: yes, Amy is both pregnant and not pregnant; there’s a woman with an eye-patch behind every wall; and the Doctor’s going to die and Rory and Amy are wondering whether to tell him. We remember that from episodes 2, 3 and 4. Is anything else going to happen?
Well, Ali Larter and Amber Heard were being quite normal this week, having a random team meeting at a ‘‘A seminal examination of photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty’ at the Anneberg Space for Photography in Century City (partners were allowed, apparently). Well, okay, Ali tried to be a little random:
“Ugh!” shrieked Ali Larter upon seeing a photograph of a bony model falling as she walked down a runway in a pair of impossibly high platform shoes, the model’s knees buckling in a way that made her look almost like a sideshow contortionist. “I have like a gag reflex to this,” she said.
Nice try, Ali, but while you and Amber were off looking at photographs, Scarlett Johansson was off doing this:
And this
And this
No. No idea. That’s how random Scarlett is. And she didn’t even stop there. She’s also recorded a song for a movie, Days of Grace, with Massive Attack. At this rate, this is going to have to become Random Acts of Scarlett Johansson.
Oh, no. Wait. Brad Pitt has randomly decided to pretend to be Don Johnson in Miami Vice. I’ll get back to you on that. Anyone for Random Acts of Brad Pitt?
First off, above is the costume Adrianne Palicki wore at the end of the pilot for a proposed new series of Wonder Woman (thankfully not picked up). Surprisingly, worse than the other ones, I think. Poor Wonder Woman, she never gets the breaks.
Anyway, the wife and I were watching original series Wonder Woman the other night and to our surprise, up pops Drusilla, Wonder Woman’s sister aka Wonder Girl (not in the comics, where it’s Donna Troy, but hey ho). Okay, not surprised by Wonder Girl – surprised by who’s playing her.
Recognise her yet?
No? Well that would be Debra Winger, star of An Officer and a Gentleman and recently In Treatment, in pretty much her first role (they were even lining up a Wonder Girl TV series for her). How odd.
Wonder what Adrianne Palicki’s going to be doing in 35 years’ time.
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