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Warning: Major spoilers ahead. The online petition to remake the final season of the most expensive, illegally downloaded television series of all time has currently received over 1.5 million signatures. Its creator, Dylan D, implores viewers to remedy the ‘woefully incompetent’ writing of David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. But is all of this backlash deserved? […]
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Earlier this month, two and a half million of us tuned in to watch the finale of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s highly acclaimed comedy Fleabag. The series, which followed the misadventures of its damaged but lovable antiheroine, played wonderfully by Waller-Bridge herself, had finally come to an end, and needless to say, many were sad to see […]
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WARNING: Spoilers ahead. The night is always darkest before the dawn, and so it was with Game of Thrones’ third episode in the final season of the show. The episode opened with an eerie silence; it took almost fifteen minutes for the first proper line of dialogue to be spoken, cultivating a delicious sense of […]
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“I feel like I should be proposing something controversial,” Mark Gatiss confides. Cleanly-cut in stylish gray suit and with an obvious flair for the debonair, it is no great stretch to detect in Gatiss himself the mannerly (if often slightly sinister) gentleman of his defining roles. From top-tier omnipotent government official Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock […]
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The Case for Daenerys Stormborn – Jack Cooper Daenerys Stormborn. House Targaryen, first of her name. Rightful heir to the Iron Throne, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, she-who-frequently-emerges-from-burning-structures-before-overturning-prior-social-structures. Westeros, say hello to your future Queen. Daenerys is a divisive figure amongst the GoT fandom. Her ability to conquer, and […]
Continue ReadingOver the last couple of days Sean Bean has come out saying he would be glad to reprise his role as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones citing the unfinished business surrounding Jon Snow’s parents as a perfect reason for a return. A few weeks before this, book readers were dismayed to learn of the […]
Continue ReadingSpoiler warnings up to episode eight are to be expected from this – you have been warned! It was the sight of Oberyn Martell’s obliterated form that ended the eighth episode of the season that perhaps best sums up the current state of affairs in Westeros. The introduction of the fan favourite, played with comfortable […]
Continue ReadingFrank Doelger, executive producer of Game of Thrones begins by explaining that “I am always asked the same questions: who is John Snow’s mother? And why did you kill Ned Stark? So I will save time and answer those questions. I don’t know who John Snow’s mother is because George Martin hasn’t told us yet. […]
Continue ReadingOpening with a bravely symbolic sequence involving Tywin Lannister melting down the Valyrian steel blade once belonging to Ned Stark to make two new swords (giving the episode its title), season four of ‘Game of Thrones’ promises not to shy away from the political (and quite literal) mess left in the wake of season three’s […]
Continue ReadingQuick warning for those who haven’t seen the show, spoilers for this article run right the way up to and including the first episode of Season 4 – don’t say you weren’t told! It’s hard not to recognise the historical influences on Game of Thrones, ranging from broader phases in English history like the War […]
Continue ReadingThe opening minutes of the new episode of Luther acted as fitting recognition to the previous series. The image of a hunched DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) emerges from a flaming warehouse with a criminal held by the scruff of his jacket, flames burn behind him and blue police lights and black clad Special Forces […]
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