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I love settling down on a Friday night and watching Gogglebox

it always makes me smile. Some of the best belly laughs I have are from this show

This week the TV mad family's reviewed dogs might fly, Marcella, but things got awkward

and very funny when they watched the crazy TV show called sex box!!

I enjoyed this episode we find out that Adam (Ralph's illegitimate Indian son) is staying with him and Ralph is trying to get him cleared of attacking Lord Hawthorne. Ralph was trying his best but it was Cynthia who took things in hand literally to persuade Hawthorne to forget he seen the boy. The Gobble Gobble was an amazing yet slightly disturbing scene. It showed us yet again how amazing Julie Waters is. There was also the story line of Ralph's parentage and it turns out that Cynthia's dead Reggie is actually Ralph's Dad. Which Ralph didn't seem to happy to find out smacking Cynthia half way across the room when she told him! I didn't expect this revelation at all I always thought she was his secret Mother or Aunt! So why did she take Ralph under her wing when Reggie betrayed her? What did she feel she owed him? Why is she living through Ralph and why will she do literally anything for him? The plot thickens! 

The domestic violence plot between Alice and her nutcase husband Charlie was painfully to watch this week. As he cut his son's hair awful just to hurt Alice, when she then smashed a plate over his head he then took her upstairs and took a belt to her. Wonderful acting all round the scene at the club later was more fantastic acting. Charlie needs to come to a sticky end maybe soon? 

This episode made me excited for the next episode a first for this second series!  

A storm sees all the gang head to Jay's just when he is heading out for drinks

with his navy buddies. We find out that Haley and Andy are a couple now which I found strange as I only remember at Christmas these two getting caught having an affair but barely a mention since. I like these two together but I hope the writers develop there story line a bit and not forget about them again for so many episodes! 

Cam and Mitchell are hosting a girls birthday party and have to bring the party's to Jay's.

There was a lovely moment between Jay and Phil, when Jay reveals why he wants to leave for drinks with his buddies. His navy friend has passed away and when that happens the buddies always go to an Irish bar and have a silent toast. It's a nice moment when Phil pours him a drink and they sit in silence watching the raining.

Tried to watch this episode twice last night. I was so excited by the return of one of my favourite

shows Outlander, but my little boy had a restless night due to teething so I never got to watch it

Will be watching it tonight and doing a review for it next week!

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I'm not sure why but I haven't been feeling the past three episodes of this show

to be honest it just feels like more of the same of last season.

The things that made it fresh and new last season feels a little stale

Julie Waters has been my reason for continuing to watch she is amazing as Cynthia

This episode seemed to pick up a little so hopefully we might get something exciting soon!

What I do like about this show is how it's a bit of a jigsaw and how as the viewer

we have to put the pieces together!

There was a fashion show which looked stunning but all went a bit wrong when Lord Hawthrone was turned into a human torch! Which left us all guessing what happened? Then Ralph's illegitimate son Adam turned up with torched hands we see if he has an evil touch like his Dad or was he saving Leena for being rape?

So we come to the 90 minute finale of season six of The Walking Dead

This seems to have fans up in arms regarding the end of season cliffhanger

TBH I don't really mind the cliffhanger but I do think it might have been a step to far

for some fans and one to many cliffhangers in what seem to be a series of cliffhanger endings

I think that this episode didn't need to be 90 minutes the regular time would of been better

Maggie is in a bad way so the gang try to get her to hilltop to see a doctor before she starts to lose her baby but Negan's gang is waiting and block the roads at ever turn. The Morgan and Carol storyline went on to long for me it was too drawn out but I was glad for glimpses of a new community in season seven.

But if the writers can barely fit in Alexandrians, never mind Hilltop residents into 16 episodes what hope have this new community of getting screen time?! 

It was mostly 90 minutes of Rick's group in the RV driving around but there was some chilling scenes like when they decide to leave the RV and try get to hilltop on foot and as they run into the woods they hear Negan's group whistling from everywhere.

The saving grace was of course Jeffery Dean Morgan as Negan he delivers a ten minute monologue and it's so gripping I just loved it. We met Lucille his weapon of choice and we wait to see who is going to met a very sticky end, and we waiting and then we hear but don't see who gets killed! 

Personally while I'm not too annoyed by the cliffhanger I can understand why some fans are

If the writers or show runner hadn't done the same at the start of the season with Glen, and after endless cliffhanger episodes all season, it might have worked but it comes across to some fans as a cheap trick that has been done to death the past two seasons! Some one please tell the writers that ending every episode in a cliffhanger doesn't make it good writing or good TV!! It's getting a little boring and stale! Maybe it's time to get some new writers or show runner to freshen the show up a bit. I will still be watching next season but that only because Jeffery Dean Morgan gave us a glance of how awesome he is going to be as Negan.

So as one of my favourite shows finishes for a while another restarts
Outlander is back next week!!

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This series is already over! Ten episodes in two weeks and it's

gone from our screens again until next year! This series really took it up

a gear with all our characters in an unhappy place at the end of the series

Elizabeth looks like she has had a heart attack while getting ready to leave with new

beau, James learns his son isn't his, Olivia leaves after learning James has slept with the new Doctor, Jack learns that Carolyn was raped by Sir Richard. George tells Sarah he loves her and will wait for to grieve for her husband no matter how long it takes. Regina over hears and puts rat poison in Sarah's tonic which Sarah drinks and the screen goes to black!! Now we have to wait till next year to find out what happens next!

What a bitter sweet ending to Mr Selfridge

after the events of the past nine episodes we more or less knew

Selfridges wouldn't belong to Harry soon. He had to many gambling debts and his

relationship with the Dolly sisters had ruined his good name in the press. 

That with recent scandals of goods been shifted from different stores and never letting his

son competely take over spelt the end of Harry.

That said the flashbacks from 2013 when the series started (I have been

a big fan since then) brought tears to my eyes. Jeremy Piven played a binder and everyone stood for Harry as he left the store he build from nothing. The show gave Harry his happy ending as against all the odds Lady Mae was waiting for him to go travelling "Paris, Rome anywhere as long as your with me" she told him. The series ended as it started with Harry walking across the street from Selfridges this time with Lady Mae in his arms. So marks the end of Mr Selfridge but maybe not the end of Selfridges as another show could be made about what happens next!

This series in back, I really enjoyed this dark drama last year

It reminds me of the type of the books I like, full of secrets and layers

which we have to strip it away. Three years have passed it's now 1935 and tension in India

is reaching it's max. The secret relationship between Alice and Aafin seems to be over. Aafin is

still playing both sides, helping stir an rebellion while attending the English club

and becoming Ralph's confidante. Julie Walter yet again plays a blinder as the slightly

crazy for power Cynthia. Sunday nights are looking good again!

Last week Carol and Maggie got caught by some of Negan's group
so this we week got an episode that was lead by women. Not just by Maggie
and Carol but by there mirror images in Negan's group Paula, Molly and Chelle
This week we saw more of Carol's humanity come back to her maybe Morgan
has had an effect on her as she struggled to out right kill people. We then relize
that that could be one of the reasons she placed herself outside with Maggie last week.
The other reason of course is she wanted to Maggie out of danger as best she could
In the end of course our girls save themselves by killing the ladies of Negans gang. We can see it's had an effect on them when they are asked if there okay and both say not but again it's Rick that shoots a man a point blank range after he says he is Negan which we know he isn't. We then understand what Molly said earlier when she said there all Negan. This group will all be Negan if they have to be to save there leader from harm.
As the audience is left thinking Negan must be some kind of bad if we are going to justify Rick and his groups actions in the last couple of episodes
Hopefully we will find out soon as this season has only three more episodes left! 

Digital or Online Favourite:

Paul and I have been watching this online as the second season

is not airing in Ireland which sucks!

This show is awesome! This is my favourite comic book show!

I can take or leave The Flash and Arrow but it's Gotham that I love!

It's alot dark then the other two shows and I really enjoy watching

how the villains come to be! This season we have seen, The Penguin, The Riddler

and The Joker start to become the nasty baddies we later see in Batman

We are about to start on the second half of season two when I believe

Mr Freeze is about to make his chilling entrance!