Even Claudia Winkleman can’t make The Traitors watchable
The BBC’s latest stab at a reality show, with a murder mystery-style twist, is a convoluted extravaganza of tedium.
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The hypocrisy of Zara McDermott’s disordered eating documentary
The BBC can’t pretend a show hosted by a fitness influencer who posted restrictive meal plans on Instagram is a…
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Hugo Blick’s masterful drama The English has left me in slack-jawed awe
I love how Emily Blunt holds a gun in this ultraviolent, suspenseful series set in the American West in the…
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Why I love SAS Rogue Heroes, a carnival of macho nonsense
Steven Knight’s new series with Dominic West strikes a tone midway between war comics and a Duran Duran video –…
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When did The Crown get so boring?
The new series of the Netflix show is more Hello! magazine than history – and no more exciting for it.…
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What Sidney Poitier stood for
Burdened by the expectations of black people around the world, the Oscar-winning actor embodied grace even under fire.
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The White Lotus and the horror of the super-rich
The second season of Mike White’s luxury-hotel comedy-drama is an exquisite examination of the miseries of the wealthy.
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Channel 4’s Made in the 80s shows how history repeats itself
High inflation, endless strikes, the spectre of nuclear war: it doesn’t take a genius to notice the painful similarities.
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