I’ve been enjoying these reviews so far and there’s plenty of good observation in them, but I could not disagree more with that paragraph about Jamie and Dani. it’s a gorgeously rendered romance, my favourite on TV in a long long time, and there is clear chemistry between the actors. (we really didn’t need Carla…

yes, thank you for saying this. Dani burning the glasses is clearly just a symbolic gesture to show she's ready to let her guilt about dead fiancee go. it's not like she could have just chucked his glasses in the trash anytime in the past few years and been free of the haunting!

yes, both actors sold it with just their eyes really, the way they would glance at each other or roll their eyes at one of Owen’s puns. it really was a superbly done relationship

Owen’s cheesy puns are so good. I honestly think I would’ve watched a whole season of Owen, Hannah, Jamie and Dani just hanging out in the kitchen talking about nothing. their characters are so great and the cast has insane chemistry with one another

T’Nia Miller and Rahul Kohli absolutely blew me away in this episode. the latter especially, when he changed from pleasant Owen in a memory to Hannah’s conscience yelling at her within the space of a second, was scarier than any of the actual ghosts in this season. and just watching Miller’s incredibly expressive face…

as an Australian, I thought Gugino and Thomas were so bad they were basically parody accents, but Jackson-Cohen’s is so good it genuinely had me checking if the actor was really American or not for a second

that is actually Oliver Jackson-Cohen, the actor who played Luke on Hill House! it really is a testament to his range that he seems to have gone from lovable damaged child to incredibly creepy window ghost between seasons

that makes sense, but by the same token... why not just have her use her normal voice? we know absolutely nothing about this character (at least as far as I’ve seen up to in the series), the bad accent just seems like an unnecessary contrivance?

the ending to Hill House is far from perfect but I don’t think it’s totally void of good ideas. I love the thought that an ancient, terrifying haunted house could also have good ghosts in it who stayed for love instead of being tricked into it

I quite liked this premiere but I’m somewhat dreading the thought of going through a whole season of Carla Gugino narrating with that godawful impression of a Northern accent

the original The Haunting is still utterly fantastic. it’s one of the horror films that I think best captures that intangible atmosphere that something is wrong, and it’s always just out of sight. the cast are all doing fantastic work too (there’s a young Dr Jacoby as Luke!) and it’s very well directed

oh yeah I fully understand the real world pressures on the show at the time. I think 7B is pretty much all terrible, but I don’t think that’s Moffat’s fault or that he didn’t try as hard to make it a good season as any of his others. even at the time, before I knew the background, I got the sense he had to give us a…

the promise of new Antlers and the surprise release of new Fleet Foxes is basically the only thing keeping me going through this shitshow of a year

I’m still thinking Smith’s run would be more or less perfect if you threw out the whole of 7B and just had it be set on Trenzalore for that half of the season. I’m not sure how the 50th anniversary special would’ve fit in then, but I’m sure there’s a way

your theory about a third of each script holds some weight - I’m thinking specifically about episodes like Orphan Whatever and Can You Hear Me that were more or less incomprehensible in their third acts because of what looked like some very hasty editing. there’s also a super-cool looking monster that was teased on…

the idea of it is fine and I can even see why they'd cast Schwartzman for that role, but just on the level of his line delivery and body language I'm not buying him at all. it feels like he just hasn't keyed into Hawley's unique energy and kinda just stumbles along his scenes instead (doesn't help that he's twice had…

I’m confused why Chris Rock’s performance is being singled out negatively. Partly because he was great in this episode (the way he snarled “another American success story” at the grifter was fantastic, both funny and genuinely menacing) and partly because Schwartzman is the actor who seems totally out of his depth to…

It Follows always kind of baffled me for that reason. its characters could generously be described as paper-thin, the concept is something you could think up in film school and the final confrontation (the last 15 minutes or so of the film) is kind of dreadful from a writing perspective

His house looked like shit!

there’s never a bad time to appreciate just how funny Tony Sirico was as Paulie Walnuts