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Helix: Season One DVD

TV Review | Iain Robertson | 28th June 2014

Helix's first season, out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday, suffered for Channel 5's capricious scheduling, but has a lot to enjoy. A lot more than most things on Channel 5, anyway.

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Person of Interest: season one â€“ first half

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 6th November 2012

Here's a show that's been on for weeks and we haven't mentioned. Now it's off again till January. Ideal time for a review, I'd have thought. PRs take note: send me a DVD and I'll review it some time around it hitting the shelves in Oxfam.

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Orange is the New Black: season two, episode one

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 5th June 2014

Netflix's best original show is back, and for a programme about women in stasis, it doesn't half know how to throw everything up in the air. (Spoilers follow.)

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Line of Duty: season two, episode five

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 18th March 2014

Yes, that six-minute long shot at the end of True Detective's fourth episode was amazing. But in episode five of Line of Duty, there was something just as groundbreaking.

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Orange is the New Black: season one

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 7th August 2013

Women's prison fiction has a proud tradition of providing jollies for the adolescent male. But Orange is the New Black, Netflix's latest original series, missteps horrifically in its positive depiction of women as rounded characters whose concerns extend further than lezzing each other off in the shower.

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Sherlock - A Scandal in Belgravia

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 2nd January 2012

(*chants*) Sherlock's got a girlfriend, Sherlock's got a girlfriend! (*ages by five years*) Sherlock's a virgin, Sherlock's a virgin! (*ages by fifteen years, clears throat*) Good evening. Here is a serious review of Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia, which was transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation last night.

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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 â€“ but with boobs!" Whilst it's not an entirely inaccurate description â€“ 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) â€“ 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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Teen Wolf

TV Review | Matt Looker | 15th July 2011

It's sultry, angst-y and bonafide teeny, but is it anything like the Teen Wolf we already know and laugh at? Of course not. They might as well have called it Goonies for all the similarities it bears.

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Hell on Wheels: The Complete Third Season DVD

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 22nd August 2014

No one makes engaging drama about the people who built the first British railways, do they? No, we just get documentaries about it on BBC4 presented by men in cardigans. Did the British railway pioneers spend half their time shooting folk, throwing back sippin' whisky and frequenting mobile brothels? Probably not, and anyway, no one wants to see them do it.

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House â€“ season 8, episode 19: 'The C-Word'

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 3rd May 2012

House is moving ever-closer towards its final episode, 'Everybody Dies', but we're going to have to wait a little longer to find out who. I mean, presumably it's not literally everybody. Unless â€¦ plane crash? SARS outbreak? Ooooh ...

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