Rory Doherty is a writer of criticism, films, and plays based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He's often found watching something he knows he'll dislike but will agree to watch all of it anyway. You can follow his thoughts about all things stories @roryhasopinions.
The post-apocalypse is not the ideal place to be stuck with a load of Brits, and yet somehow, people just keep casting them in television's best apocalyptic fiction. Let's run down the few we would like on our team.
Domina Season 2 continues to humanize Rome’s first empress, Livia Druscilla, usually painted as a power-hungry, downright evil character. However, creator Simon Burke isn't here to humanize just Livia, but all women sidelined in the stories told of
Shrug off your cynicism and embrace Wham! and its pop that compromises none of its bouncy sentimentality, while speaking directly, authentically to a youth whose perspective has always been undermined.
The confrontation between Catherine and Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley’s series finale packs a punch, but it's so massive it forces key characters and storylines out of the way with its presence.
Happy Valley's penultimate episode suffers from character and story shifts feeling like chess moves, but the imperfections will be swiftly forgotten if the finale blows our socks off.
As Happy Valley's final installment crosses the midway point of the season, events ramp up to the point of a serious injection of energy that will propel us all the way to the series finale.
Catherine must confront that the reality behind Ryan's visits to Tommy Lee Royce are rather more complex and difficult than see wants to admit in Happy Valley's third episode.
Our perennially pissed-off protagonist Sgt Catherine Cawood stays in the dark about the main mystery in Happy Valley's second episode, focused on her personal problems over Ryan contacting Tommy Lee Royce.
