All the obvious awards were presented at the Emmys – but what should be added to the list? Most Obvious Product Placement Product placement is playing an increasingly large role in our TV habits. No show features this more than House of Cards; the producers seem to have forgotten that...
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Tell us about your new show, Consequences. It’s a show about aging, and about how much I’ve let my sixteen-year-old self down, basically. It’s called Consequences because I realised all the things I thought I’d be doing when I was sixteen that I’m very much not doing now. I’m not...
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Finding your degree a little dull or complex to understand? Fear no more – our writers are here with TV shows that can help you better understand your degree, or at least enjoy it a little more… Community Bethan Ackerley Community is the story of newly suspended lawyer Jeff Winger,...
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At the Edinburgh Fringe- that great festival into which all the actors and comedians of the world are irresistibly drained- there are more musicals than you could see in a week. Perhaps more surprisingly, there are a great many shows about Sherlock Holmes. Musical Theatre Warwick’s Holmes For Rent, an...
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Polly Findlay has staged a raucous, playful production of The Alchemist, Ben Jonson’s esteemed city comedy. A play of many transformations, The Alchemist is centred around a “venture tripartite” of confidence tricksters. Face (Ken Nwosu), otherwise known as Jeremy, is a butler to the nobleman Lovewit. With his master fleeing...
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I’ll admit it- I’m scared of interviewing Rachel Partington. A student at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, Partington has written a play about the experiences of an Eritrean refugee she met in the infamous ‘Calais Jungle’. In Still Here, soon to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, she’s recreated...
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Maria Aberg returns to the RSC to direct a lurid, fantastical production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. By now, most of us know the story – an ambitious scholar makes a fatal deal with Lucifer’s agent Mephistopheles. In exchange, he receives near limitless power, and meets a tragic demise. Aberg’s...
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This week Jessica Jones slows down enough to let its characters deal with their damaged relationships, and centres itself around the search for forgiveness. None of the characters have a wholly black and white morality, but some feel guiltier about blurring ethical boundaries than others. Robyn takes a big step...
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So much has happened this week that I can barely fit it in one review. To my immense relief, in AKA I’ve Got The Blues, Jessica and Trish finally found out quite how off the rails Simpson is. Even before he murdered Clemons, Simpson’s behaviour was menacing with Kozlov’s drugs intensifying his hero...
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This week, Jessica Jones treads familiar ground for the superhero genre, and asks what’s the cost of fighting a dangerous criminal. The lives caught in the crossfire become the central focus of AKA 1,000 Cuts, as Jessica’s allies each cause the death of a guiltless bystander. By far the best...
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This week we find Kilgrave in his very own sin bin, a high tech prison made by Simpson complete with electrified water and hermetically sealed walls (I confess I had to google what that meant – airtight, for those who were wondering). The inference that leads to the discovery of...
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This week’s episode takes place almost entirely in Jessica’s old house. It’s to the credit of the actors and writers that AKA WWJD? is so compelling; by scaling down the action, Krysten Ritter and David Tennant are given the space they need to act, away from the violent showpieces of...
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Bethan Ackerley returns for her series blog in her review of 'AKA Top Shelf Perverts'....
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