Turn‘s finale, ‘The Battle Of Setauket’, was a serviceable last episode to the first season of the show. It failed to be as grandiose as the title would have you believe though, since it mainly revolved about Major Hewlett’s men seeking refuge up in the town’s untakeable church, while Ben Tallmadge an his soldiers tried…
‘Against Thy Neighbor’ was all about Simcoe’s plan to… frame an entire village? The last couple of weeks he had been looking for spies and traitors among Setauket’s inhabitants, but during the latest Turn episode he took it a step further. First he poisoned Major Hewlett’s horse to make Hewlett think the rebels wanted to kill…
‘Challenge’ was a decent Turn episode, mostly because there was very little filler this time around. The two main plot threads both felt essential, even though the pacing was off and, in the end, nothing big happened… once again. So far the show has had a habit of raising the stakes over the course of…
‘Mercy Moment Murder Measure’ surely has to win the award for most cringeworthy episode title of 2014, and is a perfect example of why alliteration isn’t always the best way to go. Regardless the outing itself was quite decent: it focused on Simcoe’s return to Sitauket and, being the loose cannon he is, he caused…
While ‘Mr. Culpeper’ featured a storyline about a fight club for slaves that wasn’t all that interesting and Abe Woodhull’s journey this week wasn’t as nuanced or thought-provoking as the writers probably would’ve liked it to be, it definitely was a solid episode because we finally got into the early stages of spy work, a…
There was a brief glimpse at slavery in the pilot of Turn, but onwards it was dropped. And now, during ‘Epiphany’ it was back again and, not only that, but it was suddenly at the core of the episode’s narrative as well. A couple of characters (and I use that term loosely) were introduced, the…
While ‘Eternity How Long’ was a step up from last week’s terrible third episode, many of the show’s problems plagued it just the same. The episode was mainly about Major Hewlett’s decision to pull up gravestones to protect cannons, putting Richard Woodhull in a difficult position: would he let the British pick stones and risk…
‘Of Cabbages And Kings’ is the Turn episode that makes it abundantly clear that this series isn’t headed for greatness. I’ve been quite lenient with the first two outings of the show: a new show has to find its footing, set a tone and introduce its players. Most of the time a series will need…
Because of Abe and Anna’s efforts last week, Washington’s men ambushed an ambush. The fallout was the main focus of Turn‘s second episode at first, but halfway the attention shifted to the investigation of the murder of Captain Joyce, who was found with his throat slit during the pilot. Abe was a suspect in that…
AMC’s brand-new show Turn, based on Alexander Rose’s book Washington’s Spies, tells the story of America’s first spy ring: the Culper Ring. The pilot starts off in the autumn of 1776, a time at which it seems like the end of the Revolutionary War isn’t far off: the British have forced George Washington’s rebels into…
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