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What did you watch last week? Including The Amazing Spider-Man, Arrow, The Killing 3 and Homeland

3 December 2012 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

It’s “What did you watch last week?”, my chance to tell you what I movies and TV I watched in the past week that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

First, the usual recommendations: 30 Rock, Arrow, Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23, Falcón, Go On, Grand Hotel, Last Resort, and Modern Family.

Still in the pile to watch from the weekend: Dexter, Wedding Band and The Killing. But here’s a few thoughts on what I have been watching.

  • Arrow: I’m not sure what’s more implausible: that John Barrowman could have a grown-up son or that Tahmoh Penikett could be beaten in a fight so easily. Still, this was the first effort by DC’s very own Geoff Johns, and noticeably the first clunker of the season, despite the arrival of Helena Bertinelli – Huntress, herself. FIlled with dreadfully bad dialogue and poor characterisation, it felt like a bad Geoff Johns comic rather than a TV script. Stick to what you know, Geoff. And just to reiterate, Tahmoh Penikett!

  • Elementary: A bit more procedural than the previous week’s episode, but funnier, which the show could certainly do with. Definitely starting to feel like Sherlock Holmes, too. The one caveat: kind of demeaning to suggest that (spoiler alert)a woman in need of seed funding would become a prostitute. There’s a joke in there somewhere, possibly deliberate by the writers.
  • Falcón: Just noticed it’s got that nice Santiago Cabrera from Heroes in it. It’s also getting harder not to notice that no one – apart from Cabrera – knows how to pronounce Spanish words, and even he pronounces them in a Latin American way, rather than a Castilian way. We even had Falcón himself pronouncing General Pinochet’s name in a French style to rhyme with ‘croquet’ rather than ‘jet’, which is a little silly. Those niggles aside, it’s a compelling series, albeit quite a gruesome one, although frankly Falcón is a little self-obsessed and needs to man up. Sad to see Maurice Roëves get killed off within about two minutes, mind.
  • Go On: Oh yes. There’s an old blind guy in it. They seemed to have forgotten him for a while, but now he’s back for an episode with a reasonable amount of pathos. It also had Hayes MacArthur back and Laura Benanti had something to do for a change, which was nice.
  • Homeland: 15 minutes of probably the stupidest TV since season four of 24, followed by a decent half hour and ending. Why is it fundamentally so hard for Homeland to be consistent this season?
  • The Killing 3: So I’ll confess that I gave up after episode eight of the original – not because I didn’t like it but because two hours a week was a bit of a push for me. I didn’t bother with series 2 either. But I thought I’d give it a try for series 3. And… it’s okay. The acting’s good, the production values are good. But the plot, with the cunning kidnapper, feels very The Bridge (lite) – so much so that I started watching that again immediately afterwards – and the familial problems of Sarah Lund felt very implausible and cliched: it’s the standard trope that any woman who works hard in a police show will always lose her partner and end up with estranged kids as punishment for her transgressive ways. And of course she has to bump into her son at the station and get distracted. And of course the kidnapper has to call while she’s talking to her son and she can’t just say “It’s the kidnapper! I must take this! Lives depend on it!” But I am enjoying it and I’m going to try my best to keep up with it. BTW, is Danish politics really so low budget and amateurish that it seems more like Torquay council elections? And I’m assuming the name of the ship is a red herring, too (possible spoiler): that it’s not the mother who had her daughter abducted as punishment for the husband’s failings, as with Euripides’ Medea?
  • Last Resort: Apart from my complaint about the producers seemingly not knowing there’s a difference between the Caribbean and Hawaii, a decent enough episode that highlighted the problems of rape in the US military. Daisy Betts failed to rise to the acting challenge, however. A decent enough fight scene on the action side, but the show’s just kind of chugging along at the moment.
  • The Mindy Project: Not the funniest thing ever, but the “Iron Man novelisation” moment made me laugh out loud.
  • Vegas: The procedural was slightly duller this week, although the historical background to it was interesting. The episode did have some nice insights into Dennis Quad’s military background, with his sparring with the USAF investigator working well. Carrie Anne Moss also had a little more to do, now that the separate “Women Only” storyline is up and running, plus we have an extra female character to add to the mix, too. Needs to find some more verve if it’s to survive for a second season, though.

And in movies:

  • The Amazing Spider-man: The best Spider-man movie so far – far more Nolan-esque than the previous outings – with proper acting, some deeper moments than the first three, Emma Stone (redhead going blonde)’s Gwen Stacey being far less of a cipher than Kirsten Dunst (blonde going redhead)’s Mary-Jane, and Rhys Ifans doing a wonderful job as Dr Curt Connors aka The Lizard. Some great stunt scenes and the CGI felt solid, too, like it was actually a man doing the stunts, but the film still couldn’t avoid some cheese towards the end. Could have done with being more fun and shorter, though.

“What did you watch last week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?

What did you watch last week? Including Grand Hotel, The Master, The Ghosts of Crickley Hall, Dexter and Vegas

26 November 2012 Rob Buckley 16 Comments

It’s “What did you watch last week?”, my chance to tell you what I movies and TV I watched in the past week that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

First, the usual recommendations: 30 Rock, Arrow, Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23, Falcón, Go On, Grand Hotel, The Last Resort, and Modern Family.

Here’s a few thoughts on what I have been watching.

  • Dexter: Meh. While the show is playing all the right notes in some senses, it’s getting hard to care. Plus it looks like they’re handing over big bad duties for the second half of the season, which makes it even harder to care. But Ray Stevenson has been remarkable and last week’s scene with him and Michael C Hall was fabulous in an otherwise dull episode.
  • Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23: A delightful piece of Thanksgiving evil. The return of Michael Landes was welcome, too.
  • Falcón: Is it just me or are more and more crime dramas forgetting they need to be solved somehow? Here we have the classic cop-out of the bad guy revealing himself for no very good reason, just so he can finish the plot off quickly within the run-time. All the same, an atmospheric piece of work with a surprising bit of casting for the villain (spoiler: Alexander Siddig from Star Trek: Deep Space 9). Good to see they didn’t write Hayley Atwell out immediately the story ended, too. I’ll be tuning in this week.
  • The Ghosts of Crickley Hall: Joe Ahearne of Ultraviolet fame adapting a James Herbert novel for BBC1. Unfortunately, it’s up to Herbert’s standards rather than Ahearne’s, and everything’s a bit dull and typically BBC – period trappings, nothing too nasty. Good cast, though, even if some of the actors think they need to act spooky for things to be spooky.

  • Go On: Hang on. So John Cho and Matthew Perry are supposed to be the same age? How’s that work? Despite that niggle and the return to the somewhat duller short title sequence, this was probably the best episode so far, with Lauren Graham of Parenthood turning up as Cho and Perry’s old college friend whom they both discover they have feelings for. Getting Graham in, who’s friends with Perry now but used to date him, is a genius move, since the chemistry they have was very obvious and the whole episode worked very well. The supporting cast got further rounding out, too, although Laura Benanti could benefit with a bit more depth to her character.
  • Grand Hotel: Best described as the Spanish version of Downton Abbey and currently running on Sky Arts, it’s actually a whole lot better than that. Both a period piece and a mystery, with one young man coming to the Grand Hotel to be with his sister, only to discover that she’s disappeared, it’s wonderfully made and acted. But it’s not my thing. But if you like Downton, give this a try. More about it here.

  • Homeland: After last week’s bit of silliness, it was a welcome return to form for Homeland, with everyone acting relatively sensibly and the story picking up at last. Grown up TV, again, thank God.
  • The Mindy Project: The return of Ed Helms for a fun episode that perhaps made us like all the characters more than Mindy now. And good to see an English character amused by the US rather than vice versa for a change.
  • Vegas: Another cracker of an episode and a bit of gamechanger, too, here blending the procedural in with the main storyline. And proud deployer of the line “What do you do for a living?” “Wholesale butchery”, which was lovely.

And in movies:

  • The Master: Beautifully made, beautifully acted and a fascinating character piece, essentially about L Ron Hubbard and Scientology, with Joaquin Phoenix playing an ordinary schlub who gets sucked up into ‘The Master’s’ (Philip Seymour Hoffman) post-war craziness. But one of the most meandering, plot-free films you’re ever likely to see, it stumbles from situation to situation for no well explored reason, relying on the actors to carry the whole thing with their performances because there’s no narrative drive or coherent message beyond “Learn to love yourself so that you can love others”.

“What did you watch last week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?

What did you watch last week? Including Argo, Bomb Girls, Redfern Now, Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 and Men in Black 3

19 November 2012 Rob Buckley 16 Comments

It’s “What did you watch last week?”, my chance to tell you what I movies and TV I watched in the past week that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

First, the usual recommendations: 30 Rock, Arrow, Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23, Go On, The Last Resort, and Modern Family.

Still in the viewing pile: this weekend’s Dexter and The Wedding Band, and a queue of Strike Back and 30 Rock that’s as long as your arm. But here’s a few thoughts on what I have been watching.

  • Arrow: A bit of a down-tick in quality, the show essentially being about why the Arrow starts fighting ordinary crime, rather than just rich people, and largely suffering from a whole heap of silliness as a result. But even bad Arrow episodes are still quite good.
  • Bomb Girls: A Canadian period series set in World War 2 in Canada. Currently airing on ITV3. I missed it when it aired in Canada, but I’m not that fussed, since although it seemed a reasonable show of its type and it had James McGowan from The Border in it, there weren’t many characters to draw me in.

  • Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23: A topical one this, tied into People’s Sexiest Man of the Year issue. The first episode in a while to tie back into the idea that the B—– is a con-woman, not just insensitive, it was another fun watch.
  • Elementary: The first of the Keith Szarabajka projects of the week, this went largely in the directions expected of it, although with a few twists here and there. The show’s largely finding its feet now and remembering it’s Sherlock Holmes, not just a procedural. Separating up Holmes and Watson so Watson could investigate Irene Adler was a bold move, but it worked. Not sure about the ending, but it would fit in nicely with the idea that she is one of the only people capable of fooling Holmes. Or he could be lying.
  • Go On: Has acquired a new title sequence for no good reason. It’s not the worst title sequence ever – The Mindy Project has that – but it’s odd that it’s now getting one after all this time. A well-handled episode that possibly introduced a new character, but nothing extraordinary.
  • Happy Endings: Sad to say, but I’m giving up on this. It’s just not funny any more and they’ve messed around too much with Max, so I’ve deleted it from the queue.
  • Homeland: Not quite as ridiculous as last week, but it’s now so 24-ish, it’s impossible to take seriously. Plus it has one of the daftest sex scenes you’ll have seen in a while.
  • The Last Resort: The first episode without much action fun to keep things going, it also buckled a bit under the strain of the smuggler narrative.
  • The Mindy Project: Getting funnier again, but it does have the worst title sequence ever. Hard to tell if this was shown out of chronological order or not, because there were lines in it that didn’t make sense this late in the run.
  • Misfits: Off the viewing list as well. It’s lost its purpose now, not having any particular story to tell or any particularly interesting characters to tell it with. The cast try their best, but it’s not fun and it’s quite misogynistic.
  • Modern Family: A good one. Matthew Broderick did well.
  • Redfern Now: A The Street-like Australian show that Jimmy McGovern had a hand in shaping and featuring an Aboriginal cast and set in a Sydney suburb. While the first episode, which dealt with one woman’s attempts to look after her mentally ill sister’s children, did have its bleaker moments, this was more a look at triumph in adversity. Not something that’s really up my street (ho, ho), but a decent enough show for what it is. Worth a try if you’re looking for something a little different.

  • Suburgatory: Off the viewing list. Not really satirical or even funny any more.
  • Vegas: The best episode since the first one. Carrie-Anne Moss finally got something to do and with the introduction of Michael Chiklis’ wife, there’s almost a separate female narrative that runs parallel to the main male one, which is an interesting historical twist. The original theme of the different shades of grey of the two protagonists got a re-viewing as well and I liked the obvious parallels to the original JFK election debate, too. Perilously close to the recommend list, now.

And in movies:

  • Argo: The second Keith Szarabajka project of the week, this one a tad more appropriate to a former star of The Equalizer. Here he plays a smaller part in a film based on the true story of how the CIA extracted six Americans from Iran during the 1979 Revolution by faking a science-fiction movie called Argo. Beautifully directed by the lead, Ben Affleck, it’s tense and funny in equal measure, with some frightening scenes of crowd violence and some wonderful recreations of LA in the 1970s that actually make you wonder “how did they do that?” more than most CGI in sci-fi blockbusters. The 1970s Warner Bros logo is a delight and they even get Jimmy Carter at the end, but the fact that practically everyone in it has been in a TV show I’ve watched at some point was distracting (Oh, it’s her from Homeland… Breaking Bad… The Mindy Project… Alias… Damages…!). Recommended, though.

  • Men In Black 3: A real surprise. While it takes a while to really get going and it lacks the energy of the previous two, it’s certainly a whole lot more original than the second one. Josh Brolin is great as young Tommy Lee Jones. There’s also some real pathos at the end. If you’ve given it a miss since you think you know what it’ll be like, give it a try – you might be surprised.

  • Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2: While it suffers largely from the same problems as the previous movies in the franchise – too long, not much happening, not enough time spent on developing the secondary characters – this does at least have a decent, extended fight scene and Bella changes from being a wet domestic abuse victim to something a whole lot more kick ass, thankfully. I watched this in a screening packed full of teenage girls and it turns out that teenage girls en masse have forgiven Kristen Stewart for whatever ‘sins’ she might have committed, and that not only do they like ‘an eye for an eye’, they’re also partial to a decapitation or two, judging by the whoops and cheers. That might be just a SE London thing, though. They also get a bit embarrassed by on-screen sex. Possibly the most gruesome of the movies, it’s also slightly spoilt by Michael Sheen going colossally over the top, but otherwise, it’s surprisingly not bad.

“What did you watch last week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?

What did you watch last week? Including Arrow, Dexter, Elementary, The Mentalist, Skyfall and Prometheus

12 November 2012 Rob Buckley 12 Comments

It’s “What did you watch last fortnight?”, my chance to tell you what I movies and TV I watched in the past two weeks that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

First, the usual recommendations: 30 Rock, Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23, Go On, The Last Resort, and Modern Family.

Which, as long time readers may have noticed, means a few shows have left the list: Happy Endings, Dexter, Homeland, The Mindy Project and Suburgatory. More on why in a moment, but I will add that Arrow is now on the recommended list.

Still in the viewing pile: last night’s Misfits, Bomb Girls and Red Fern Now, which is an Australian show. But here’s a few thoughts on what I have been watching.

  • Arrow: While episode four was possibly the most Smallville-like of the series so far, episode five more than compensated with thrills galore. John Barrowman seems to be acting again, which is weird, and even Deathstroke’s mask worked well in context. Added to the recommended list.
  • Dexter: Last week’s episode had possibly the worst ending of any Dexter episode ever. And that’s up against some stiff competition. This week’s episode did slightly redeem things, but the entire Yvonne Strahovski storyline is ridiculous and it doesn’t help that she gives exactly the same performance as she gave in Chuck, just with more nudity. Ray Stevenson is great, though, but the show has lost its recommended status, all the same.
  • Don’t Trust The B—– in Apartment 23: Doing well. The Happy Endings ‘crossover’ last week was very odd, but so’s the show, so I guess that kind of worked.
  • Elementary: The episode a couple of weeks ago was probably the worst so far, but last week’s properly felt like a Sherlock Holmes story, with proper mysteries and deductions. Roger Rees did well – will we see more of him, I wonder? – and, of course, there was that name at the end, which made my day…
  • Happy Endings: Suffering from “difficult third season” syndrome. It’s just not funny any more, entirely implausible, and Elisha Cuthbert and her goofiness are the only thing worth watching.
  • Homeland: Last week’s episode had an ending made of pure 24 and this week’s episode was full of people doing stupid things in stupid, implausible ways, too. You could guess pretty much everything that was going to happen. Such a shame, because it was so good last season.
  • The Last Resort: The first downright poor episode so far, although it did have a good pay off at the end. What are they down to now? About five crew members left?
  • The Mentalist: Well, I haven’t watched it since the first season, but I thought I’d tune in for its 100th episode, which was a flashback to how all the characters first met and Simon Baker started solving crimes. Well done, as always, and Baker’s great, as always, but absolutely identical to all the other episodes of the show that I’ve seen, which is why I gave up on it in the first place.
  • The Mindy Project: Off the list. As the show accelerates rapidly away from being the anti-romcom romcom towards being just another workplace comedy, so it stops being funny. There were more than a few good moments, but I’d not say I’d actually recommend it any more.
  • Misfits: Obviously just passing time now, rather than telling any proper stories. You’d think with only one surviving character from the original cast, they’d make more of Curtis, but apparently not. Plus its attitude to women isn’t improving much, either. But not without some good qualities.
  • Modern Family: A slight reset of the show, but I liked it.
  • Red Dwarf X: Quite a decent ending, actually, albeit one that threw most continuity out of the window. Probably the best season since either two or three.
  • The Secret State: Channel 4’s remake of A Very British Coup, with Gabriel Byrne. I watched about a minute before I started laughing, which clearly can’t be good for a show that thinks it’s Very, Very Important. I’ll try watching the rest later in the week if I can.
  • Suburgatory: Off the recommended list. It’s just too silly and too many men writing episodes (as we discovered last season, Suburgatory is only funny when women write the episodes).
  • Vegas: Unmemorable.

And in movies:

  • Skyfall: Didn’t like it as much as I thought I was going to, but that might have been down to the constantly chattering teenagers next to me. It also doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense? What was Javier Bardem’s plan? Why Scotland? Why go to Skyfall? Why Bond, rather than the SAS? It’s also a tad sexist (really? Bond? The shower? And the ending). Having said that, it was almost as good as Casino Royale – it does need a proper Bond woman now to give it some romance for a change – it had some great individual moments, it’s all worth for the back story and the last five or 10 minutes, Ralph Fiennes is really good and in this 50th anniversary and Olympic year, it’s appropriate that one of the exotic locales for the film should be London.

  • Prometheus: Absolutely dreadful. While all the Alien prequel elements were a treat and the body horror stuff actually grows in retrospect, the plot and story are just dreadful and mostly just set-up for a much better planned sequel. Looks great, boring to watch. And frankly, it rips off a lot from Hangar 18, which was twice as entertaining.

“What did you watch last fortnight?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?

What did you watch last week? Including Red Dwarf X, Ben and Kate, The Mindy Project, Looper and Dexter

8 October 2012 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

It’s “What did you watch last fortnight?”, my chance to tell you what I movies and TV I watched in the past two weeks that I haven’t already reviewed and your chance to recommend things to everyone else (and me) in case I’ve missed them.

First, the usual recommendations: The Thick of It, Moone Boy, Red Dwarf X and Homeland.

So here’s a few thoughts on what I have been watching:

  • Ben and Kate – Not much to say that I didn’t cover in my review of the first episode. I tried watching it. Everything about it bar Lucy Punch was dreadful. I couldn’t stand any more of it, so I switched off. Don’t bother with this one.
  • Dexter – Well, I was going to give it one last chance, and after a shaky “oh surely not” first few minutes of the first episode where they milked things out as much as they could, they finally settled down and gave us something that felt like Dexter again. Episode two managed to be as nasty and as high quality as episode one, so I’m sticking with it for a while at least.
  • Doctor Who – I finally got round to watching A Town Called Mercy. It was all right, I guess. Ben Browder was good for the 10 minutes he was in it. But it felt like a very tedious bit of old-school Who, in which the moral dilemma of the week is spelt out in excruciating detail, the liberal ideal is espoused and the liberal ideal is proved right at the end, no matter how unlikely that is, given the scenario we’ve been painted. Clunky, but with moments.
  • Elementary – More of a mystery story than the first episode and a bit more of the Holmes of the books got added in. A little blander perhaps, but a bit smarter and a bit better than the first episode, so I’m not writing it off yet.
  • The Last Resort – An almost literally nail-biting episode, but the whole thing falls apart as soon as any female characters appear. This isn’t because women shouldn’t be in such a manly show but because the writers appear to have no idea how to write women except as problems or as men. Plus an actress other than Autumn Reeser could probably pull off the “I may be a woman but I talk like a man” dialogue that she gets, but that’s not the actress in the role, unfortunately, so it just looks silly.
  • Made in Jersey – You have to admire a bunch of producers who admit to themselves that their pilot episode was a colossal cock-up and basically reboot the entire thing from the second episode, which is what the producers of Made in Jersey have done. Apart from shunting aside most of the cast, in favour of an all new cast that includes Ringer‘s Kristoffer Polaha, they’ve got rid of the Legally Blonde aspect, got Kyle MacLachlan to team up with our heroine and toned down the New Jersey stereotypes. There was also an interesting bit about how people in your own class can bring you down when you try to aspire. A definite improvement on episode one, even if it’s still not that much different from any other legal procedural.
  • The Mindy Project – Not quite as funny as the first episode but if you added up the comedy value of every other comedy on TV this week, combined, they still wouldn’t be as funny as The Mindy Project. The end scene was just nasty.
  • Moone Boy – Like an amiable stroll through 80s TV. Now promoted to recommended
  • Partners – While not quite as offensive as the first episode and the writers were clearly tailored the roles to their cast, by downgrading David Krumholtz to more of a nerd than an alpha male, it was still both unfunny and at least a little offensive, so I turned off. Avoid this one, too.
  • Person of Interest – I obviously abandoned this after episode three but since the mother in law has carried on watching, I thought I’d try leaping back in to see if has got any better. And largely, although the plot clearly has moved on and I found myself a bit lost at times, it hasn’t got any better. It’s the same. While Amy Acker being evil was moderately entertaining, the show still has the same flaws – the star, decent action taking place off-screen rather than on-screen and so on – makes this feel just like a lazy action star who’s feeling a bit tired and so sends the stunt double in rather than do the stunt himself.
  • Red Dwarf X – surprisingly good. Basically, it’s as though we never left series one or two and everything since has been ignored. I even laughed several times. Colour me surprised.
  • Vegas – More procedure-bound than the first episode, this was still a decent hour of drama. Good to see they’re adding another woman to the mix, this time on the side of evil, too.

Still in the pile: last night’s Homeland and 666 Park Avenue. Also, Strike Back: Vengeance, which we’re saving up to watch in one go at the end of the series.

And in movies:

  • Looper – A film that’s been getting a lot of hype, it’s actually a relatively low key, low budget sci-fi movie with some fairly imaginative ideas, a decent twist or two and the benefit of some CGI to make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look more like Bruce Willis. But other than that, you’re going to get more action on TV from Hunted and more complex plots from Doctor Who. So don’t believe the hype, don’t expect an action extravaganza, don’t expect to have your brain stimulated à la Inception. But do expect to enjoy about an half and a hour of the movie’s 2h20 run-time, and do be surprised by cameos from the likes of Piper Perabo and Garret Dillahunt.

“What did you watch last week?” is your chance to recommend to friends and fellow blog readers the TV and films that they might be missing or should avoid – and for me to do mini-reviews of everything I’ve watched. Since we live in the fabulous world of Internet catch-up services like the iPlayer and Hulu, why not tell your fellow readers what you’ve seen so they can see the good stuff they might have missed?