Entries by Richard Berry from 03/2012

One Tree Hill: Jumping Forward in Time, But Still Looking Back

| Posted 03.05.2012 | UK Entertainment

So is it any good, this final season of the show? At this point, that's no longer really the point. What quality the show had faded a while ago. But it captured its audience at a young age, and such a long time ago that most of them are still tuning in simply to see how it all ends.

Julian Fellowes' Titanic: All Class and No Character

| Posted 03.26.2012 | UK Entertainment

Unlike the iceberg, of course, we could have seen Titanic's problems a mile off. It's clear from Fellowes' most recent creation Downton Abbey that he believes the mere proximity of people from different social classes is enough to make a decent drama. Forget character, story, emotion...