Kaka

A weaker copy of Ocean's Eleven, where Paul Giamatti doesn't have anything close to the flair of Andy Garcia, let alone  George Clooney and Brad Pitt. The twists and turns and would-be suspenseful plot is actually pretty funny overkill by the end.

The character of Wendy Rhoades is perhaps the most interesting of this season. She goes through believable and realistic situations, twists and turns, and emotional layers. The rest is not worth talking about, it's the usual routine that is nothing to write home about.

An episode of short and actually unnecessary meetings where the protagonists usually say five and a half sentences to each other, whereupon the editor starts their work and another similar scene in a different place but with a similar concept follows, rinse and repeat for most of the episode. If the main characters used their phones, most episodes would be like 15 minutes long and they would actually be about nothing at all. Wendy and her psychological analysis is passable, the rest just fizzles.

By far the brightest point of the episode, which follows in the same vein as the previous ones, are the interviews with the dean of the school, played by the excellent J.C MacKenzie. But also Frank Grillo surprises, this time he does not play an action role, but an artistic one – a painter – and he pulls it off quite decently.

The creators try to conduct some scenes in a similar spirit as Scorsese in Wolf of Wall Street, but they lack the directorial skill and sense of timing and improvisation of the master. There's a decent sparkle between the main actors, but otherwise it's basically a plodding 60 minutes of unremarkable routine

The follow-up to the overblown and unnecessarily overblown fourth season. The overly eccentric and verbose series continues and the only thing worth nothing this time perhaps is the appearance of a new and at first glance quite decently sophisticated "villain" and a witty and apt wrestling scene. So far all the ills of the previous season are copied in no small measure by this one.

One of the best takes on zombies, and pretty impressive considering the source material is a game, which usually doesn't produce good adaptations, think of Max Payne and others. But the creators managed to hit the atmosphere perfectly, develop the characters brilliantly, use flashbacks and current events to cleverly build the story, and the casting deserves an A+ with the central duo. For fans of the game, there are supposedly a plethora of references, and for the uninitiated, it's a terrific piece of filmmaking that has the vast majority of the attributes that make for a full-blown spectacle. The first season was rather intimate, a warm-up, I expect the second season to be suitably epic.

An unnecessarily action-packed Terminator-like finale that doesn't quite fit the previous plot developments, but so be it. The motivation is understandable and the final moments are superb. If the game went in a similar vein, I understand the hype around it. I can’t wat for season 2.

Uncompromising survival in a harsh snowy landscape and a properly atmospheric town, where shot after shot slowly reveal a very unpleasant secret. A superbly crafted villain and a traditionally good central duo in a properly suspenseful episode that, while it has a bit of a tendency to copy some of the previous ones, is so unsparing with a dose of uncompromising violence that you can't help but admire it.

Although disappointing for die-hard fans of the game, this episode has solid filmmaking qualities. The set of the old shopping centre is impressive, the atmosphere is gloomy and there is one big creeping problem. Brilliantly built-up and those lesbian moments don’t matter at all.