The current BBC incarnation of iconic British detective Sherlock Holmes is stylish, entertaining and increasingly silly. In a world where chaos theory does not seem to be a thing, Sherlock solves cases that grow more far-fetched as the series goes on.… Read the rest
Orphan Black starts with a contrivance that is never fully explained. A woman happens to see someone who looks exactly like herself step in front of a train. The identical part is – of course – the main mystery, but this doesn’t take too much imagination to figure out.… Read the rest
Jamie Dornan has a very odd typecasting problem. Before he started tying up volunteers for sexual kicks in the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, he was tying up women in the television series The Fall. Only here, the women were victims rather than kinksters.… Read the rest
Idris Elba has been working his way up through Hollywood lately, gracing Prometheus, Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom with his presence. But apart from a breakthrough role in The Wire, he is best-known for his portrayal of Detective Chief Inspector John Luther in the crime series Luther by the BBC.… Read the rest
