In recent years, adapting Agatha Christie for the BBC has become popular and has led to reasonable success, and I would firmly put this adaptation somewhere in the middle of the versions based on quality. It is far from a bad show, but it also fails to reach the heights of classic Christie. The sense …
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Doctor Who Season 12 – TV Review
Following the deeply disappointing season 11, there was a lot of pressure on this season, and while it was far from perfect, it really dragged my attention back to Doctor Who and was mostly a real success. The season brought back the idea of season arcs and huge plot twists, both of which proved to …
Doctor Who – The Timeless Children
Promised as an unmissable series finale that would change the show forever, ‘The Timeless Child’ had the job of concluding one of the shows best seasons in recent memory and satisfyingly answering multiple questions the season had posed, and it mostly failed. While I appreciate the fact they made some big risks in messing hugely …
Dracula (2020) – TV Review
The legend of Dracula is one of the most well known and frequently adapted stories in the history do literature, and I truly believe this will stand up as one of the best. You can tell it is from Moffat and Gatiss as it has their distinct style, whilst also mixing well with the classic …
The War of the Worlds (2019) – TV Review
The BBCs mini-series adaptation had all the ingredients to succeed. It had a solid cast, a setting in a source material faithful time period, and enough time to properly tell the story. With all this in mind, it’s even more disappointing to see the result that we got. The three part show turned H.G.Wells’ iconic …
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