The highs (and lows) of festive TV
From Around the World in 80 Days to A Very British Scandal.
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The best TV of 2021
The New Statesman TV critic Rachel Cooke chooses her top ten shows of the year. Succession (Sky HBO)Roy story: Jesse…
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The strange spell of BBC Four’s Winter Walks
I hunker inside each episode, as if in a too-big cagoule, trying hard to ignore the rain.
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Why the break-up of the Beatles still grips us
Even in 1969, Lennon and McCartney were still capable of making each other laugh and creatively turning each other on.
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Why a 2015 Norwegian drama is suddenly the most relevant thing on TV
An energy crisis, Russian brinkmanship and an international failure to address the climate crisis: is Occupied edging towards reality?
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Brexit Britain is “changing whether it likes it or not”
The National Theatre’s Death of England explores Englishness after Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Amol Rajan’s The Princes and the Press reveals the parasitical sycophancy of royal correspondents
The gargoyles on display here only make their weird, semi-necrophilia seem all the more repellent by talking so very earnestly…
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Amazon Prime fantasy series The Wheel of Time is a colossal waste of time and money
Can this derivative series really have cost $10m an episode to make? I went into a kind of death spiral…
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