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Torchwood Shocks Our Nipples With Sudden Greatness
Wow. The latest Torchwood episode was amazing, and not just for this chloroforming, nipple zapping scene. If only "Fragments" had aired during season one, preferably as the second or third episode. It would have made the BBC's Doctor Who spinoff seem like a much cooler show, and might actually have improved the other episodes. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Torchwood Should Be Called "It's All The Doctor's Fault"
Is Torchwood's Captain Jack the worst boss in the universe? He sexually harrasses the employees, he creates a hostile work environment, and he shoots you down when you show some initiative. And yet, even though I would never want to work for Jack in a billion years, this was easily the best episode of the Doctor Who spin-off since the one where Martha Jones showed up. Yes, our love-hate relationship with Torchwood continues, with spoilers. More »
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Endless Circus Of Pain, On Torchwood
Every season of Doctor Who's formerly-sexy spinoff Torchwood seems to need one episode by P.J. Hammond, best known for creating 1970s cult show Sapphire and Steel. Both of the annual Hammond episodes have featured weird supernatural themes (fairies, ghosts) and bizarre contrived storylines. And they both felt as though Hammond wrote them for something else and then slapped the names of the Torchwood characters onto them. More »
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Torchwood: Too Much Crying, Not Enough Shagging
Wow. I could have chosen any one of the 500 cheesy soap opera moments from last night's episode of the BBC's alien-hunting show Torchwood, and then made fun of it for five paragraphs. But any show that can pull off such a spot-on riff on Peter Jackson's Dead Alive pretty much gets a free pass from me. (It does lose points by having Captain Jack reference the wrong movie right afterwards. WTF?) This scene was almost enough to make me forgive the rest of the episode. Almost. More »
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Torchwood Has Finally Broken Our Brains
How you feel about this clip probably determines what you think of last night's Torchwood. If you think this is a moment of supreme bathos and ranty drama, which spoon-feeds you what you're supposed to be learning about the characters, then you probably won't be too fond of "A Day In The Death Of." On the other hand, if you believe it's an awesome moment of genuine character development, then you'll probably love the episode. And you probably watch the show wearing home-made Torchwood footie pajamas. Click through for spoilers. More »
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It's A Crazy Zombie Rave On Torchwood
Here's the whoah-trippiest moment from Wednesday night's trippy new episode of Torchwood, the wackier spin-off from the BBC's Doctor Who. Remember how we said last week that this episode might make us change our minds about thinking the show was finally on the right track? Well, it wasn't as bad as we'd feared... but it was cheesy and nonsensical, even by Torchwood standards. Click through for the damage. More »
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Torchwood May Actually Be Growing Up
Here's yet another super-disturbing clip from Torchwood, which seems to be dipping into horror more and more. Two new episodes of Torchwood aired Wednesday night in the U.K., and they were both way above average, leading us to hope that the "grown-up" Doctor Who spinoff might actually be growing up. Click through for spoilers and another clip. More »
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Alien Torture Porn Is The Only Good Part Of Torchwood
This scene from last night's Torchwood almost made me puke and cry, it was that good. The whole business with the callous humans abusing yet another alien visitor for financial gain was incredibly well done, and really horrifying. It was one of the best examples of a humans-are-the-real-monsters story ever. Unfortunately, the other half of the episode was Torchwood at its rock-bottom worst. Click through for spoilers. More »
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War Is All Women's Fault
Last night's episode of Torchwood masqueraded as yet another rift-in-time-OMG-snogging installment, but was trying to say something profound about war. So why, according to Torchwood, do we fight pointless wars like the one in Iraq? Apparently it's because men will do anything as long as you say to them: "You're my brave handsome hero and I need you." Too bad this crappy romance subplot let the show down once again. Spoilers ahoy! More »
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Violating Your Civil Rights Makes Torchwood Crew Horny
An alien infiltrator stabs a random guy in the chest seven times, in front of his wife and kids, then stabs him in the head so hard his blood spatters on the wife's face, in last night's Torchwood. It was easily the most brutal episode of the Doctor Who spin-off so far, notwithstanding last season's trying-too-hard "Countrycide." But our crew still had time for some bizarre sexual innuendo, in between shredding people's civil rights and dodging explosions. Click through for spoilery recap. More »
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