Review: The Mentalist: Rose Coloured Glasses (2010, US)

Spoiler Note: This is a current season episode and the entire plot is outlined below. This second-season episode of The Mentalist features an incident of sexual humiliation which is visited upon the victim rather than being something he was pushed into from a hazing/initiation perspective, as with Criminal Mind’s Elephant’s Memory episode (2008). In the…

Review: Suffer The Children By Adam Creed (2009, UK)

You could be forgiven for thinking that saturation of crime drama is beginning to result in repetition; just as the plot of the very first episode of CSI NY was influenced by Mark Billingham’s Sleepyhead, now we have Suffer The Children by Adam Creed (hereafter known as STC), which, like Ian Rankin’s Dead Souls 11…

Spring Catchup

There have been many programmes screened during Child Abuse Prevention Month, whether by accident or design. We’ll try to cover as many as possible them on our spring catchup in the News and Reviews section. However we’ll restart with the fact that Breaktheabusecycle.com has gone out of Beta and has launched. You can now view…