Review: True Detective (S2 E6/8), Monday 27th July, Sky Atlantic

I’m happy to admit that I wasn’t looking forward to this episode. Knowing HBO’s penchant for gratuitous nudity, the prospect of Ani Bezzerides going undercover at an Eyes Wide Shut-style sex party made me uneasy. I was expecting wall-to-wall, highly stylised cavorting the likes of which would make Game Of Thrones blush. Throughout these past…

Review: Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime (S1 E1/6), Sunday 26th July, BBC1

It’s 1952, and the Beresfords, prissy Tommy (David Walliams) and nosey Prudence, known as “Tuppence” (Jessica Raine, Call the Midwife) are in Paris – we know that because of a poorly CGI’d Eiffel Tower – on their way back to London after an expedition to buy a queen bee (Tommy knows all about queens, he…