Tag Archives: thriller

What I’ve been watching (May 3-9)

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

Sometimes I’m asked how I decide what to review on this blog, and the answer’s pretty simple – it’s whatever I happen to have watched, read, seen or listened to that week. I never choose to watch something purely to … Continue reading →

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Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man Part 1 (BBC4)

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

One day, BBC4 is going to stretch its Nordic Noir cloth too thin and the whole thing will unravel on them in an alarming threadbare mess. The channel keeps going back to the same well, going deeper and deeper in … Continue reading →

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The Last Weekend (ITV)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by

You wait for months for a psychological thriller, and then two come along in the same week and and on the same TV channel. Go figure. Blake Morrison’s novel on which this three-part adaptation is based describes itself by that … Continue reading →

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Line of Duty E1-3 / Blackout E1-2 (BBC)

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

The BBC has chosen July to air two new drama shows that feel like they’re reasonably direct offspring from last year’s The Shadow Line, even though they themselves are quite different from one another. Normally too such dark shows would … Continue reading →

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Homeland S1 E12

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Contains spoilers – big ones – only read once you’ve seen all of season 1. I reviewed the first three episodes of Homeland two months ago, and came to the conclusion that I was missing something: that I simply didn’t … Continue reading →

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Thriller (1973-76): Screamer, Killer With Two Faces, A Killer In Every Corner, Where The Action Is, If It’s A Man – Hang Up, The Double Kill, Won’t Write Home Mom – I’m Dead, The Crazy Kill

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

Regular readers of this blog will have noticed a strangely under-active April in terms of new reviews. Partly that was because most of the things that I was watching tended to be the tail end of series that I’ve already … Continue reading →

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Thriller (1973-76): Lady Killer, Night Is The Time For Killing, Nurse WIll Make It Better

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

One of the very best writers working in UK TV in the 60s and 70s in my view was Brian Clemens (recently awarded an OBE for services to drama, it turns out.) Even as a young kid I grew to … Continue reading →

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The Turin Shroud Secret, by Sam Christer

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Contains some spoilers. Considering that just about every other historical and religious icon has been plundered by some post-Dan Brown conspiracy thriller in the last decade, it’s surprised me that seemingly no one has hitherto used the Turin Shroud as … Continue reading →

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Homeland S1 E1-3

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

I feel I’m missing something about Homeland, the new US drama series from the Showtime cable channel now airing in the UK. The story of a US marine who comes home after eight years as an Al-Qaeda captive, this remake … Continue reading →

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The Shadow Line – Ep1

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

Caution: contains spoilers It’s been a very strange week for TV drama. After months of domestic drama drought we suddenly get overloaded with Exile, Vera, Case Sensitive – and now this conspiracy thriller boasting a staggering cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, … Continue reading →

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