Year: 2016

It’s “What have you been watching?”, my chance to tell you what movies and TV I’ve been watching recently that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

The usual “TMINE recommends” page features links to reviews of all the shows I’ve ever recommended, and there’s also the Reviews A-Z, for when you want to check more or less anything I’ve reviewed ever. And if you want to know when any of these shows are on in your area, there’s Locate TV – they’ll even email you a weekly schedule.

Well, I’ve culled and the fact I’ve culled means that alles in Ordnung now. If I hadn’t been doing some last minute editing of articles for the Financial Times yesterday (ook, hark at me), WHYBW would have been with you then. Now it’s today, so that means I’ve been able to slip a couple more shows into my viewing schedule.

This week I’ve already passed third-episode verdicts on:

• Billions (US: Showtime; UK: Sky Atlantic)
• The X-Files (US: Fox; UK: Channel 5)
• The Magicians (US: Syfy)
• Angie Tribeca (US: TBS)

But I’ll be saving my third-episode verdicts on Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (UK: Sky1) and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (US: The CW; UK: Sky1) until Monday. That means that after the jump you can see what I thought of the latest episodes of American Crime, Arrow, The Flash, Lucifer, Man Seeking Woman, Marvel’s Agent Carter, Okkupert (Occupied), Second Chance, Supergirl and The Shannara Chronicles. This week’s theme? Relationships with fathers. Can you guess which shows feature them? Other than Lucifer, obvs?

I might watch the latest 100 Code tonight. Or I might watch Sicario instead. The latter seems a better a choice. Anyone got any better suggestions?

I’d let you know what I thought of Guy Ritchie’s movie version of The Man From UNCLE, but we only watched 10 minutes of it last night before my wife fell to sleep, which is probably not a good enough sample of it to pass a fair judgement. And to be fair, we both thought it wasn’t bad. Not proper Man From UNCLE and quite silly, too, but interesting in its own right so far, particularly the take on Napoleon Solo, and a good recreation of Berlin and Checkpoint Charlie.

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