The previous two seasons had very strong first instalments but tonight had it all: style, economy, character, humour and some of the most intense and sustained scenes of blood-soaked TV carnage since the last season of Spartacus splattered its way across screen.
With Rogue One winning the Christmas race even more comprehensively than predicted, signs are strong Rian Johnson's latest instalment in the central Skywalker saga will wipe every other movie off the box office next year.
Bloomsbury, the publisher of Harry Potter, today said it expects to make a £20m profit this year based on strong advanced orders of the latest instalment in the adventures of the boy wizard.
The Nice Guys was also given one of the most blatantly open endings of the season but, despite strong reviews, it failed to catch on with audiences so more instalments seem unlikely.
The weakest of the Divergent movies to date, this third instalment finds Tris (Shailene Woodley, still the series's strongest asset) venturing beyond the walled boundaries of Chicago, through the toxic deserts of the Fringe, and into the shiny arms of the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Just when we needed a strong, mid-week pick-me-up, UK producer and DJ Melé turns in the next instalment in THUMP's MIXED BY series, and we've been bumping it with relish.
"Getting strong now/ Won't be long now…" Out on Friday, Creed is the acclaimed latest instalment in the Rocky fighting franchise.
Of the pantheon of funny, smart, strong screen women to write a memoir, Anna Kendrick's is a welcome, entertaining and endearingly honest instalment, about school, dating, sex, family and her unlikely rise through Hollywood.
Mantel became the first novelist to win both the Man Booker and the Costa prize when a nine-strong judging panel took less than an hour to decide that her thrilling, gripping and bloody second instalment of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy was a clear winner.
One final instalment, perhaps?
