We're very nearly at the end of the second series of this sci-fi drama, which overall has had a mixed reception from the critics. When it's on form Torchwood can be very good indeed, but when it's off it's felt to be pretty average. Tonight's penultimate episode of the 13-part series is somewhere between the two, serving as a useful retrospective, showing how the various members of the team were recruited.
The following preview is courtesy of BBC:
A booby-trapped building explodes and knocks the team unconscious, as Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies's award-winning drama continues.
As each team member's life flashes before their eyes, viewers learn how each of them was recruited to Torchwood: Captain Jack (John Barrowman) was initiated into a shocked Victorian Torchwood in 1899; Toshiko (Naoko Mori) went on a daring mission to trade alien technology for her mother's life; Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd) wooed Jack with coffee and a flair for alien-catching; and Owen (Burn Gorman) had a medical revelation that changed how he saw the world.
(4 Star)
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