Stories By Jem Bloomfield

Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
May 5, 2026Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...

Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
May 2, 2026The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...

Mystery
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
April 28, 2026Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...

Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
April 25, 2026It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
April 22, 2026You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap – Series 2, Episode 1
April 22, 2026You know what’s good about Merlin? (No, not that, we’re leaving that ‘til the second paragraph,...

Music
The Cunning Little Vixen, Live-streamed from Glyndebourne Opera House
April 21, 2026It has not been an altogether popular production, not least with the huffy Glyndebourne reactionaries who...

Movies & TV
Merlin Recap: ‘The Once and Future Queen’ (Season 2, Episode 2)
April 20, 2026Meanwhile Arthur himself is suffering from tragic royal ennui. He worries that the only reason he...

Television
Merlin Recap: ‘The Nightmare Begins’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
April 20, 2026Unsympathetic spectators might hazard that her unquiet slumbers have something to do with her invariable habit...














