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Discover compelling insights into the latest TV shows with our selection of reviews, providing critical analysis, expert opinions, and captivating commentary on the most popular and thought-provoking series.
Amol Rajan’s Ganges vanity project
The BBC news presenter’s pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela is a half-hearted attempt to find spirituality.
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Outrageous: a Mitfords rehash too many
A TV retelling of the famous sisters’ lives is cartoony, exaggerated and too determined to be modern and droll.
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The Gold loses its shine
The second series dramatising the aftermath of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat heist is solid but tends towards the grandiose.
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Mountainhead is a tech-bro horror show
Jesse Armstrong’s sharp, satirical film about four tech entrepreneurs imagines a plausible dystopian future.
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The Bombing of Pan Am 103 is poignant and fascinating
I didn’t think we needed another drama about the Lockerbie air disaster. I was wrong.
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The BBC’s new therapy show left me with a full-body cringe
I demand that no one is ever again allowed to commission a series as poor and as dubious as Change…
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ITV’s Malpractice is horrifying yet plausible
The second series of the medical Line of Duty asks: what’s the difference between being stretched and negligence?
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Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes brings horror flooding back
Jeff Pope’s meticulous, minute-by-minute reconstruction of the events of July 2005 reveals the shameful circumstances of De Menezes’ death.
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Louis Theroux: The Settlers is a deathly warning
In this documentary, Theroux allows ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers to speak with perfect openness. It is chilling.
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I, Jack Wright is a riot of a show
With a great cast and bold writing, Chris Lang’s new murder mystery drama is deliciously watchable.
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Your Friends and Neighbours is doomed to languish unloved and unwatched
Jon Hamm’s Apple series could be a kind of cut-price update on John Updike’s Rabbit novels – if only it…
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Ben Miller’s social media satire Austin misses the mark
This new BBC sitcom is no Colin from Accounts.
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Severance and the paradoxes of grief
Cold Harbor is another entry in the canon of television which use fantastical ideas to convey the scale and the…
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The White Lotus’s banal class war
The show, written from a liberal’s imagination, is a paltry social critique.
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This City Is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the caterpillar…
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Severance knows the self is an illusion
We are obsessed by the idea of our authentic selves, free from the burdens of context or history. What if…
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is how crime drama should be done
This Netflix series is a veritable pageant of sophisticated anxiety and dread.
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Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs
This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.
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