This piece originally appeared as part of my weekly newsletter, The Full Lid . If you like it, and want a weekly down of pop culture enthusiasm, occasional ketchup recipes and me enjoying things, then check out the archive and sign up here. Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and Sebastian Vaughan (Hugh Skinner) are recruited into Torchwood at …
Torchwood was a very odd TV show. Over it’s four years it covered everything from alien fight clubs and the only Kaiju under Cardiff to Welsh cannibals, searingly clever social science fiction and the end of death. It was wildly uneven, often awful, often good, occasionally incredible. It’s final season, Miracle Day, was Torchwood to a tee; …
(Written just over a week ago, with no spoiler info so this is all flagrant speculation) Let’s play spot the Doctor Who plot arc! Specifically, just what the plan is for the increasingly interesting Danny Pink. Below are some of the major theories, with evidence for and against. Activate the Speculatron 5000!
One of the bravest things about Torchwood has always been the show’s willingness to kick things over. It’s second only to Spooks in the Gleeful Murder of Characters stakes, has been cheerfully up front about throwing ideas onto the screen and then abandoning them if they don’t work and with Children of Earth, the last …
Quiet Violence, Loud Brutality: Torchwood-The Men Who Sold The World
(This essay discusses the entire series in detail. Spoilers for every episode abound.) In 1966, something terrible makes contact with the British government. Something worse delivers twelve children to it. One escapes to a life of homelessness and mental illness, a life of misery and nightmares of a man in a long coat who promised …