Sunday 15 January 2012

TV

Perfect Couples
1x13 Perfect Daughter [series finale]
Perfect Couples comes to an end with one of its better episodes. Still not a great series, mind, but it did improve a bit as you got used to it.

Sherlock
2x03 The Reichenbach Fall [season finale]
That was brilliant, though I wish they'd done the reveal at the end -- we knew he was going to die and then not be dead, of course, but how he did it is the real surprise. Of course, that makes for a pretty fine 'cliffhanger'/tease, much clever than if they'd tried to pull off "is he dead?" as one.
Though however much I loved Sherlock, the twist (unveiled on twitter) that a third series was actually commissioned at the same time as a second is better than any they had in the series itself. Keeping that, which is pretty big news (how many series get a two-season pick-up! Not many) completely secret for so long is a very clever piece of work. Neat, very neat.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

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