The episode where she basically tells Clara what the Doctor is always too kind to - that she can't even begin to fathom the nature of a relationship between two thousand-year-old superbeings who have been in each others' lives for centuries and she's stupid for trying to -was as lovely as it was convincing.

I don't think that's quite what happened. It always seemed to me a little more like he was placed into a wider context.

Yeah! With maybe some really, really light serialisation where there's just some vague recurring shadowy menace/problem that turns up in a couple of episodes. I've kind of missed that.

Y'know, I'm rather enjoying the undemanding blandness of Iron Fist. It's sort of…palate cleansing. A gentle throwback to the pre-Whedon era when not every TV series needed to saddle itself with weighty psychosocial themes that it may or may not be able to bear.

Yeah, it's not very good, though.

"I saw plenty of others tweeting on the hashtag and did my part"

Bright Star (that scene with the butterflies!)
A Room with A View (even Simon Callow's penis couldn't spoil the fervent mood)
Before Sunset (Before Sunrise for grown-ups)

I'd like to thank the AV club for introducing me to this album, every one of whose songs sounds like it would turn up halfway through the end credits of a film in which Tom cruise solves the future by running. But in a good way.

Yes, but the difference is that when that sort of thing is done well you don't mind (or often even notice). You certainly don't need some disembodied authorial voice stepping in to tell you not to worry, all will become clear, because a good writer/s will have set things up so that while actions don't on the face of…

Inform them how? She has no idea who to talk to, and no way of getting to them that wouldn't trigger someone shutting her down long before she did. Even if she managed it, how would they react? They'd be a tad more concerned that she knew where and what she was than what she had to say about a couple of techs slacking…

"Episode 8 will cover that" is presumably the new "…and they have a plan".

It's established in the very first episode that an alarm is triggered if the 'livestock' are doing something they aren't scheduled to be doing - so presumably they're tracking everything all the time because, why wouldn't you?

Look, I'm enjoying it, but it's taking massive and rather shoddy liberties with its internal worldbuilding which were on maximal view here.

Well, at least Spike Milligan's mirror universe counterpart is still alive.

I've always felt they should have shot a straight adaptation of Greg Bear's 'Queen of Angels', which is where they lifted the basic idea of the film from and where it's used much more interestingly.

I've tried a couple of giallos (Suspiria and…uh…Red…something? It was a while ago) and they bored me to tears. Just don't see it at all.

I'd be interested in how US audiences react to this, given that it's a roughly 74.2% successful mashup of two intensely English things - Thomas Hardy and Nigel Kneale.

'You heard the man and you know the drill, assholes and elbows! Hudson, c'mere! Come! Here!'

It's controversial, and there's not much in it, but I'm going to confess a slight preference for the Les Dawson years.

I dunno - when I was in my early teens I went through a whole 'fervently religious' phase - part of that whole self-dramatizing instinct one gets - and that was without being exposed to any of the horrible shit he has or having my piety encouraged by a charismatic older man shortly after my father (as far as I know)…