Following the success of 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express Kenneth Branagh has returned to Agatha Christine’s popular Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In 1938 Poirot (Branagh) is on holiday in Egypt when he runs into his old friend Bouc (Tom Bateman) at the Pyramids. This chance meeting leads Poirot to become a part of a wedding party for […]
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Vigil Episode Six Review
Vigil has reached its conclusion after six episodes with a sadly underwhelming finale. DCI Silva has discovered who the Russian mole on HMS Vigil is. Unfortunately, he got to her first and locked her in a torpedo tube. The situation for HMS Vigil is dire with it flooding with water and Russian vessels in the area. On land, DS Longacre […]
Vigil Episode Five Review
Vigil has entered into its penultimate episode and it was the tensest episode so far. Things have gone from bad to worse for HMS Vigil. The ship’s chef has been killed and a section of the sub has been contaminated. Silva and Glover have to go on a dangerous mission to investigate the crime scene and retrieve the […]
Vigil Episode Four Review
The fourth episode of Vigil brings in a new suspect and theory behind the death of Craig Burke and who’s behind the issues HMS Vigil has been suffering. DS Longacre’s investigation takes her to look at an anti-Trident protest in Glasgow. It leads her to a suspect she believes to be an MI5 agent that had followed […]
Vigil Episode Three Review
The third episode of Vigil has a lot going on as it adds more suspects and conspiracies to the mystery involving HMS Vigil. DCI Silva believes that Craig Burke may have been poisoned after finding a strange substance on Burke’s hoodie and in his mouth. She also makes a lot of enemies since she has […]
Vigil Episode One & Two Review
Vigil is the latest police thriller from World Productions, with Jed Mercurio, the creator of Line of Duty credited as a producer. The first two episodes were shown on Sunday and Monday night in the UK to ensure viewers would be hooked in. A fishing trawler sinks near where the British nuclear submarine, HMS Vigil, was patrolling. […]
Game of Thrones Rewatch: Season Two
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]