(Original post at The National Student)
In All Debts Paid, the cost of the bargains that Claire and Jamie have struck begin to materialise, with wider ramifications than perhaps either of them realise.
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Outlander: ‘Surrender’
(Original post at The National Student)
In this week’s episode of Outlander, Jamie and Claire continue to grieve each other’s absence and search for new, lesser forms of intimacy.
Outlander: ‘The Battle Joined’
(Original post at The National Student)
When we left Outlander‘s Claire Fraser, she and her daughter Brianna had discovered that her long-lost husband Jamie had survived the Battle of Culloden and may still be alive somewhere in the 1760s.
Although 1960s Claire has resolved to return to the 18th century and find Jamie again, the season three opener, ‘The Battled Joined’, concerns itself with the immediate aftermath of Claire’s return. In Outlander, to go forward we must go back.
Game Of Thrones: ‘The Spoils Of War’
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(Original post at The National Student)
The opening shot of The Spoils of War – a convoy of Lannister wagons holding gold and grain – is a disappointingly literal embodiment of the episode’s title. Thankfully for the Game of Thrones audience (and impoverished student reviewers), the rest of The Spoils of War is a lot more compelling than that.
Titus Andronicus, Royal Shakespeare Company
TW: rape
(Original post at The National Student)
Titus Andronicus is not an easy play to stage. Perhaps Shakespeare’s most violent work, the play is famed for its excessive savagery; rape, mutilation, and cannibalism are so ubiquitous in Titus Andronicus that for years, many critics have derided the play for its sadism and narrative simplicity.
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Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Ten
(Original post at Cultbox)
The final episode of Fortitude Season 2 leaves many questions unanswered, but provides plenty of scope for a third run.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Nine
(Original post at Cultbox)
Back on brilliant form, this week’s Fortitude episode recovers from last week’s missteps and delivers gory nightmare fuel at its finest.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Eight
An uneven chapter of Fortitude, this week’s episode contains some flashes of brilliance amongst its cruder plot developments.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Seven
(Original post at Cultbox)
After Hildur’s dramatic exit last week, her fate is the elephant in the room throughout Season 2’s seventh instalment.
Fortitude: Season Two, Episode Six
Michael and Hildur meet with Fortitude’s scientific community to discuss the files from Vukobejina. In 1942, an attack similar to the wasp plague was reported in the Russian town, which killed all but one man.
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