RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Nurse Christine (Melissa de Vries) writes to Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) asking for a recipe that will allow her to sleep. She has inherited …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – mid-season speculative recap ⁓ Jessie (Kylie Fisher), comes home for dinner and stumbles into two new family situations. Her mother Charlene (Khadija Heeger) has a new acquaintance named Craig (Raffaele Sabatini), and her sister …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 – SPOILERS ⁓ Aileen McClintock (Robyn Scott) and her husband Gordon (Richard Wright-Firth) have traveled from Scotland to visit Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy). Gordon thinks Maria killed …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 1 – Episodes 9 & 10 – SPOILERS ⁓ Jessie (Kylie Fisher) has been kidnapped, probably by the same person who killed Martine. In the course of her investigations, Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle …
RECIPES FOR LOVE & MURDER – mid-first-season thoughts – SPOILERS Weeks after two probably related homicides, a lot of Eden’s townspeople seem worthy of suspicion. Anna (Daneel Van Der Walt), Martine’s would-be lover shares a gun fetish with Martine’s husband …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 1 – Episodes 1-4 – (minor spoilers) For seven years, Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) wrote the recipe column for the Klein Karoo Gazette, so when it was decided an advice column would sell …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Egwene (Madeleine Madden) and Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) are still traveling with Ila (Maria Doyle Kennedy) and her band of nomads. Just as they get within sight of the White …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS “The Wheel doesn’t want anything. It can’t. Any more than a river or the rain can want something.” Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) have been joined …
THE WHEEL OF TIME – Season 1 – Episodes 1 through 3 – SPOILERS More ‘Sword and Science‘ than ‘Sword and Sorcery‘; THE WHEEL OF TIME is an engaging, complex, and coherent fantasy world. Fans of the books seem generally …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Amanda (Clare Dunne) arranges a meeting with Eamon Cunningham (Ciarรกn Hinds) to negotiate an end to the war. The two of them meet in an airport lounge on the other side of …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 7 – SPOILERS Amanda (Clare Dunne) is very methodical. She hires her own lawyer and persuades Jenny Lawlor (Denise McCormack) to say (for $500K) that her dead husband (see Episode 1.3) did all the money …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 6 – SPOILERS Eamon Cunningham (Ciarรกn Hinds) manages to negotiate a two week grace period from his suppliers (at the rate of $140K per day). His new-age-y ex-wife Angela (Fiona Bell),who is dying of cancer …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS In a well-organized heist, the Kinsellas nab $50 million worth of Eamon Cunningham’s drugs (pretty much all that he had). They can’t sell the stuff right away, so they stash it and …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 4 – SPOILERS Blood has mostly been absent from KIN, but the killing in this episode signals the beginning of more graphic violence. Francis Flynn (Thommas Kane-Byrne), nicknamed “Fudge”, is the victim this time. While …
KIN – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS The Kinsellas are a clan that deals drugs for a living. A conflict develops when their primary supplier (whose boss is Eamon Cunningham, played by Ciarán Hinds) insists on becoming their only …
