Category: 12-monkeys

12 Monkeys "Divine Move" Review

3/23/2015

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by Graham Osborne

12 Monkeys is slowly descending into preposterous levels of ridiculousness, and this week’s episode really starts to show the cracks. I’m not saying it’s jumped the shark quite yet, but it’s certainly started training with dolphins and dipping its toes into the Great White Tank.

12 Monkeys "Yesterday" Review

3/9/2015

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by Graham Osborne

It feels somewhat unlikely that 12 Monkeys will continue for a second season. That’s not to say it’s not a good show, however, there’s only so many times Cole and co. can succeed in destroying a version of the virus before discovering that there’s another sample that’s been hidden at the bottom of the handbag of that nice lady Mrs Trellis who lives in the flat opposite one of the scientists working on the virus, and who once borrowed a cup of sugar from them. It’s hard to see how far they can take this before something really drastic has to happen that will shake up the status quo.

12 Monkeys "The Red Forest" Review

2/23/2015

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by Graham Osborne

Time Travel is a tricksome beast. If it’s not sending you back in time to have awkward sexually charged moments with your teenage mother, it’s directing you into an alternate timeline because you didn’t throw away that packet of crisps you just wolfed down, and now the world is doomed! You wally.

If you’ve been following the events of 12 Monkeys so far, you’ll know that the chances of temporally displaced oedipal trysts are unlikely, so settle in for a more dire version of Back to the Future II!

12 Monkeys "Atari" Review

2/9/2015

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by Graham Osborne

12 Monkeys has truly shucked off its cinematic forebear, and is forging a new future for itself by changing the past and righting wrongs. As the story presses onwards with its attempts to find the cure for the Plague that has destroyed humanity, it becomes ever darker with more risks needing to be taken and plenty more casualties caused.

12 Monkeys "Splintered & Mentally Divergent" Reviews

1/21/2015

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by Graham Osborne

We truly are in an era of adaptations. The Marvel Cinematic has set up the dominoes and given us a grand total of at least 30 films featuring all of our favourite superheroes between now and 2020. At the same time, Hannibal and Fargo are taking their silver screen hits and condensing them down into weekly serials that manage to capture the spirit of the original, whilst telling a different story and (in the case of Fargo) bringing in all new characters. 12 Monkeys follows on in the same vein, as we are shown a new version of Terry Gilliam’s 1995 time-travelling epic.

12 Monkeys "Divine Move" Review

12 Monkeys "Yesterday" Review

12 Monkeys "The Red Forest" Review

12 Monkeys "Atari" Review

12 Monkeys "Splintered & Mentally Divergent" Reviews

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