TV Review

Recently HBO drama Vinyl was cancelled due to low ratings and poor reviews. In regards the latter, the general consensus was that the show represented everything wrong about prestige TV -- overblown budgets, over-reliance on drugs, sex and…

One of my favourite tropes of the golden age of television is that of the murder mystery in a small town. Although so many shows of recent memory rely upon such a plot-line – Twin Peaks, The Killing, The Fall, True Detective, Fortitude –…

One thing that is truly amazing about the “golden age of television” we find ourselves in today, is how cinematic the content has been. In the past, one automatically associated TV with a certain look, most often synonymous with lower…

Another Netflix resurrection, Charlie Brooker’s ever-popular discomfort-athon Black Mirror, returned to us last week with a new six episode run. This time around the episodes focus on - and I hope you're sitting down for this - how…

We have entered a Golden Age of Television with such classic shows as Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Sopranos dominating our TV screens. This series looks at the changes in the most powerful medium on the planet. In Part 1 Dave Curran…

HBO's Vinyl is exactly what you’d expect from a Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter and Mick Jagger collaboration. Created by HBO (airing in Ireland on Sky Atlantic), it tells the story of Richie Finestra (Boardwalk Empire’s Bobby…

When Fringe called it a day in 2013, after 100 episodes, one of the best sci-fi shows of the last decade came to an end. In-between monsters, shape-shifters, time-travelling and multiple universes, Fringe was a show all about family.…

The following contains mild spoilers for season three of House of Cards A pivotal scene in the new season of House of Cards sees Kevin Spacey's duplicitous President Underwood don military fatigues and face off with the show's…