Saving Davros? Doctor Who Returns
Doctor Who is back with ‘The Magician’s Apprentice,’ part one of a double episode series opener, and it’s clear that this season, like the last, is going to be pure Moffat. The showrunner is...
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Review: Show Me A Hero
It’s hard to image that a television series about urban planning would be that interesting — one might as well subscribe to a channel allowing people to watch paint dry, or Norway’s infamous...
Indian Summers: An Indian Downton Abbey?
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...
Doctor Who Casts A Trans Actress… In A Cis Role
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
Review: True Detective
The only charitable thing we can really say about True Detective’s second season is that it’s over, which is a mercy for all and sundry. In the long term, the question of whether the show will...
#SaveHannibal: Will Hannibal Be Resurrected?
Word broke this week that NBC’s Hannibal won’t be returning for a fourth season, much to the dismay of the show’s small but extremely dedicated fan base. Everyone’s favorite cannibal stirs...
Why Are People Suddenly Surprised Game of Thrones is Violent?
Game of Thrones aired another predictably bloody and explosive season finale on Sunday, sending the internet into a tizzy and leading readers of the books to note that finally everyone is in...
Sense8’s Brave New Transgender World
The Wachowski siblings have taken to an unusual new medium: Netflix. In Sense8, a Netflix Original science fiction series, the two are illustrating that the streaming giant has the ability to command...
We Are Not In TV’s Golden Age
As the internet squeals over Game of Thrones and the end of Mad Men, going wild on Thursday nights for Scandal and quivering with delight over upfronts, many are carrying on about how U.S. television...
Boy Meets Girl: A Giant Step for Transgender Representation
The words ‘transgender character’ and ‘comedy’ in the same sentence are enough to make most trans people twitch. Comedies typically use transgender characters as the butts of jokes and...