Made in collaboration with the US channel Starz, the show mostly jettisoned its UK-centric view and the British cheekiness that had made it unique. Over 10 ponderous episodes of mostly filler, the fourth season, Miracle Day, explored what it would be like if people suddenly became incapable of dying. The series also ended the relationship between Ianto and Jack in the way so many shows tend to despatch their gay characters: one of them was unceremoniously killed. Threatening kids has to be the most hackneyed way of wringing emotion out of any show. ![]() Children of Earth revolved around aliens who wanted to harvest Earth’s children to make drugs. Filling that gap was always going to be tricky but the show was given no time to recover as it switched from a monster-of-the-week format to a miniseries with a single arc. The final episode of season two featured the deaths of almost half of the main team. The wheels began to fall off the ubiquitous black SUVs in the third series. Characters laughed, joked and, in the case of Captain Jack and the Torchwood tea-boy Ianto Jones, formed the cutest gay couple on television. It responded to the criticism levelled by some tabloids at Captain Jack’s sexual preferences by introducing a fellow time-traveller who liked not only men, women and aliens but was not averse to the charms of a poodle. The second season adopted a much lighter tone and ran with it. It wanted to show the stakes were just as high as on Doctor Who, but without leaving Cardiff the threat levels always felt limited. Photograph: Steve Brown/BBCĭespite bonkers sex aliens, some viewers thought Torchwood took itself too seriously at first, with its stars brooding moodily on rooftops and battling giant, poorly rendered CGI bad guys. Gareth David-Lloyd, John Barrowman and Eve Myles.
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