Spooks
I can’t even remember how Spooks began. I have vague memories of the deep-fat fryer scene, and of course the end of the first series with the house blowing up! We’re now at the 10th and final series, and it’s already hotting up as the CIA get involved! Only one character has survived since Series ...
Are you Good or Evil?
Last night I watched an interesting episode of Horizon entitled “Are you Good or Evil?” – 9pm, BBC 2. It featured a number of researchers exploring what makes us pick ‘good’ over ‘evil’. We saw that in an experiment 70% of toddlers picked ‘good’ over ‘bad’, at least how the researchers interpreted it anyway. They ...
Prison Break – Captive to our Identity
We’ve just come to the end of watching the 4 seasons that make up Prison Break – a US serial drama surrounding brothers Michael Schofield and Lincoln Burrows. As you may guess from the title they start off in Prison and break out… but it turns out there are bigger forces at work in the ...
The Event
So before Christmas we started to watch ‘The Event’, a “high octance US thriller”, which has proved to be the perfect filler as we wait to see series 8 of 24. It has everything that a good thriller should have… kidnap, murder, plane crashes, White House politics, high-level conspiracies… and aliens! This is the point ...
Question Time, Nick Griffin and all that..
Well done BBC for not bowing to the pressure of left-wing fascists (who as you saw on the news caused a riot, attacking the police). How dare people ever use fascist methods to suppress free speech, and the right for democratically elected political parties to speak. On the reverse side, I would criticise the BBC ...