Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Succession is back, with a script sharper than broken glass

Pay close attention to the first episode: it contains not just text and subtext, but a third layer – something low and grunting.

By Rachel Cooke

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This mock biopic of a fictional, Fleetwood Mac-style band is full of beautiful actors and clothes – but even…

By Rachel Cooke

The Bafta-nominated series about a group of young people is as unrelenting as a bulldozer when it comes to…

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I love how Emily Blunt holds a gun in this ultraviolent, suspenseful series set in the American West in…

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The second season of Mike White’s luxury-hotel comedy-drama is an exquisite examination of the miseries of the wealthy.

By Rachel Cooke

Could the channel use a hit? Every time my subscription leaves my bank account, I think again that it…

By Rachel Cooke

The new series of the Netflix show is more Hello! magazine than history – and no more exciting for…

By Rachel Cooke

This prequel is still Game of Thrones in all its bloody, deviant glory.

By Rachel Cooke

Amanda Seyfreid is brilliant as Elizabeth Holmes in this story of a compulsively dishonest young woman and the environment…

By Rachel Cooke