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Masters of Sex: Season Two DVD

TV Review | Iain Robertson | 31st May 2015

Yes, you thought this site consisted solely of recaps of Mad Men and Catfish nowadays. Well, surprise. We also review shows that are a little bit like Mad Men.

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I've definitely seen Twin Peaks before and am excited for the new episodes

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 6th October 2014

This is going to be great. I always loved how darkly surreal it was, and the guy who was like a reverse midget in a dream or something. Even just listening to the theme tune again brings back memories.

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Masters of Sex: The Complete First Season DVD

TV Review | Iain Robertson | 1st August 2014

You can imagine the pitch meeting for Masters Of Sex: "It's like Mad Men – but with boobs!" Whilst it's not an entirely inaccurate description – there's lots of attractive people in fabulous period costumes, smoking, slow-burning plots aplenty and, yes, boobs (not to mention a never-ending parade of other body parts, both male and female) – it's very much its own show. For a start, at no point in Mad Men does anyone brandish a dildo called Ulysses, although Don could probably do one hell of an ad campaign for it.

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Ray Donovan acting class: how to demonstrate range by standing

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 30th July 2014

You've got it all here: Eddie Marsan's threatening sideways lean, Jon Voight's insouciant turn askance, Liev Schrieber's straightahead hands-in-pockets furrowed look, Pooch Hall's lean with added gangsta hands, and Dash Mihok's unaccountable leg-spreading. There's not a male character archetype in the entire acting gamut that isn't covered by one of these stances. (I managed five episodes.)

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Spotted an ASTONISHING Friends Easter egg in Episodes

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 7th June 2014

Season three, episode three: Carol and Castor are in front of a board showing the network schedule, arguing about whether Matt LeBlanc's "Pucks" should get cancelled. In the 8.30 timeslot is a show called "Six of One", which is the title under which the Friends pilot was shot. And I thought this was going to be a quiet Saturday.

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Masters of Sex opening credits: a journey into innuendo

TV Feature | Iain Robertson | 12th December 2013

What exactly is Masters of Sex about? I attempted to work it out from the opening credits.

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How to get a TV poster quote in two easy steps

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 6th November 2013

One: say it's 'something meets something else', which always goes down well.

Two: realise you need to be a much more successful website than you actually are in order to achieve this, so just Photoshop the quote in yourself and hope no one asks any probing questions.

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Saul from Homeland interchangeable with other bearded men

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 21st October 2013

I think there's probably some big thing coming whereby Saul's the mole, or a secret North Korean agent or something, and that's why he's so conflicted. But this is wholly insignificant when compared with the discovery I've just made: that you can literally swap Saul around with any other bearded man and it makes no difference whatsoever.

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Dexter: series finale – 'Remember the Monsters?'

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 4th October 2013

According to the internet, every series finale is either the greatest thing in recorded history or the worst thing ever visited on the commenter's eyes, undoing all the good work that came before it. Consensus on Dexter's swansong seems to be the latter. But I'm here to tell you that finales aren't as important as all that, and that this one, while flawed, was better than everyone seems to think. And you should take note, because like everyone else's on the internet, my opinion matters gravely. (Spoilers follow.)

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The five worst things about Dexter

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 24th September 2013

My relationship with Dexter is much like that of the protagonist with his girlfriend in the Smokey Robinson song "You've Really Got a Hold on Me". She mistreats him constantly, but he keeps coming back for more without really knowing why. I watch Dexter every week, cringing at various aspects of the writing, then look forward to the next episode. I'm an idiot.

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