The job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). This season did its job perfectly. The episode kicks off in media res, which is the first time the series has done this. The countdown for 1965 is happening, with Steed and Peregrine
Read moreThis episode was about heartbreak and secrets. The episode kicks off with Peregrine, Birdie (holding Aleksander’s ashes) and Samuel at the river with plans to spend the day fishing. Although their day is ruined when Samuel’s catch of the day is the dead body of Morris Dunnet.
Read moreThis episode was all about pigeons and secret missions. The episode kicks off with a race about to start at the Sandridge Pigeon Club. We meet the competitors, who will eventually become murder suspects: Dimitri, Thelma, Melvin, Gladis and Nick. When Gladis asks where her husband and Club President, Virgil, is, Thelma goes to the coop to look for him.
Read moreThis episode was a mixture of “rockers and mods”, racism and forbidden love. The episode kicks off with Sparrow, his wife, Mavis, Steed and Sally going bowling together. A fight breaks out at another lane between Rex and Milo, who are part of the rockers and the mods respectively. Steed and Sparrow break up the fight, with Sparrow taking Rex
Read moreThis episode was all about the world of dog shows. The episode kicks off with Samuel and Peregrine at a dog show at the Melbourne Kennel Club, as Samuel loves dogs and Peregrine has declared that she’s sworn off men and is considering getting a dog. Meanwhile, one dog owner, Lavinia, is grooming her dog, Milady, backstage. When she turns
Read moreThis episode is all about love, family and Steed’s past. The episode opens at the Osborn Estate in Hartford where the body of Eddie, a farm hand, is found in a rose bush by another employee, Bill, Steed’s father, with a knife sticking out. Sparrow sends Steed out to investigate. Meanwhile, Peregrine is at the Adventuresses’ Club and copping questions
Read moreThis episode explores the world of flight attending. The episode opens with Australian Imperial Airlines (AIA) trainee flight attendants in the middle of their training, being instructed by the face of the company, June Montgomery Jones (Diana Glenn). When the trainees are about to practice doing an emergency evacuation on the training plane, the life raft is released and the
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish story arcs and subplots for the season, and revisit any story arcs and subplots established at the end of the previous season. I felt that this premiere did its job. Full disclosure, I had to re-read the reviews I wrote of the first season to reacquaint myself with the show, its
Read moreThis episode revolved around cooking, food, and Samuel’s past. The episode kicks off at a cooking school where the owner and head chef, Graham, is giving his mostly Asian chefs a hard time and his wife, Shirley, giving the ladies tips on providing finger food for entertaining. It then cuts to Peregrine finding she is low on food, Steed and
Read moreThis episode explored the eerie territory of UFOs. The episode kicks off with a couple, Tanya and Terry, in a car at a lookout on a date. Terry notices that Tanya has weird blue stuff on her arm, bright lights shine above them, Tanya gets out of the car and appears to be taken by a UFO.
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