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Watchmen | SoHo, 2.00/9.30 Mondays, Neon (weekly) ☆☆☆☆ “HBO’s drop-dead fantastic new series Watchmen is many things at once — a righteously topical, thrillingly conceived riff on race and criminal justice set in an allegorical USA of vigilante cops, shady superheroes and subversive domestic terrorists. It’s fabulous and flammable and feels exactly right …  The show […]

Sky Box Sets will screen a week-long marathon of the first seven seasons of Game of Thrones ahead of S8’s premiere on SoHo. It will also offer another chance to see the sci-fi noir Hard Sun and all three seasons of The Leftovers. Screening in order of their nightly 7.30 rotation will be: Game of Thrones S1 […]

The Sinner | Netflix, from Friday ☆☆☆☆ “Jessica Biel may be gone, but Carrie Coon is a more-than-capable replacement, joining Bill Pullman for another unnerving murder investigation — this time with a religious commune backdrop … The second season of The Sinner’s structure is similar to that of the first. We open with a harrowing murder […]

The Leftovers (SoHo, 8.30 Monday) “The end of the world is nigh. At least that’s what people are saying — or hoping — in the final season of HBO’s The Leftovers. The Leftovers is a story about an ambiguous apocalypse. One Oct. 14, 2 percent of Earth’s population randomly vanishes in what is later dubbed the […]

   Sky will premiere season three of Fargo on SoHo and Neon within hours of the US and has confirmed it will simulcast season seven of Game of Thrones day and date with HBO from July 17. HBO this morning announced the premiere date for GoT’s penultimate season, which Sky will simulcast weekly on SoHo […]

Holy Blu-ray Brilliance! Gotham soars on to disc this week with a top-notch transfer and two-and-a-half-hours of HD extras. “The Blu-ray release of Gotham: The Complete First Season looks fantastic; bleakly but beautifully saturated, precisely detailed, and proficiently encoded via a near-perfect 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video presentation.” “The show is pretty dark more often than not but colours are still […]

“In an age of revivals, reboots and general second chances, what Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta set out to do with the second season of The Leftovers demands a vocabulary all its own. Changing the setting, throwing in a brand new set of core characters and expanding on its spotlight structuring of last year, Season […]

SoHo will screen the latest seasons of Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex within a week of their US broadcasts. Last year three months elapsed between the former’s US and NZ premieres while a month separated the latter’s. Season two of Ray Donovan will screen here from July 16, three days after it goes to air […]

SoHo will preview the Channel 4 sensation Utopia a week ahead of HBO’s smoking hot new drama The Leftovers taking over Game of Thrones’ 8.30 Monday slot. The sneak peek will screen on June 23 as a teaser for the series starting later in the year and will fill the gap between Thrones’ fourth season finale and the series […]