TV Review: Merlin (A Remedy to Cure All Ills), BBC One, Saturday 25 October,...
Apologies for being a little late with this review. The way Merlin jumps around the Saturday night schedule it’s taken me until now to track down the episode. So without further ado here we go with a...
View ArticleTV Review: Merlin (The Beginning of the End), BBC One, Saturday 8 November,...
The usual plot elements were given a stir this week. Not too much, you understand. This is Merlin we’re talking about after all. But at least, with Morgana in the frame as “magical person protector,”...
View ArticleTV Review: Merlin (The Moment of Truth), BBC One, Saturday 22 November, 7.25pm
Continuing the upward trend of stories, the tenth episode involved a conflict back in Merlin’s home town. Well, village. Suffering at the hands of marauding Kanan (the always excellent Alexander...
View ArticleTrailer Trash: Merlin, BBC One
In this week’s Merlin – entitled in a Lord Of The Rings stylee, The Legend Of Gedref – impetuous Prince Arthur brings a curse upon Camelot after he kills a unicorn. Sure enough the city goes into...
View ArticleTV Review: Merlin (The Labyrinth of Gedref), BBC One, Saturday 22 November,...
Just when things were going so well, along comes an episode that took us so far out of our suspension of disbelief that we were laughing out loud throughout. Which was a shame, as we were supposed to...
View ArticleTV Review: Merlin (To Kill the King), BBC One, Saturday 6 December, 7.25pm
Another week, another bad decision by Uther. Caught holding a puck of gold that was neither heavy enough to be gold, nor hot enough (having only moments before being cast from a boiling crucible),...
View ArticleTrailer Trash: Merlin, series finale
I lost interest in Merlin weeks ago, but if I was a teenage boy I would have probably loved it. For me it’s been a bit… dull. Not sure what the Beeb is doing with this fantasy drama mularky. It made a...
View ArticleTV Review: Merlin (Le Morte d’Arthur), BBC One, Saturday 13 November, 7.10pm
The first series of Merlin ended on Saturday with a bang. Several bangs, actually. What started out as a weak and at times banal “retelling” of Arthur’s early days, which took the elements of legend...
View ArticleMerlin: Second series confirmed
When I mentioned earlier this morning that we’d bring you the breaking Merlin news as soon as we had any, I didn’t expect that to be later the same day, but the BBC have just confirmed that a second...
View ArticleColin Morgan wants a more ‘damaged’ Merlin
Merlin: Colin Morgan Colin Morgan wants viewers to see a darker side to Merlin when the series returns for a fourth series next year. The 25-year-old actor portrays the mythical wizard as a young man...
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