Grieving, I find safety in the West Wing
The series provides the comfort and company I need – and it’s so horribly dated it doesn’t matter if watching…
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The series provides the comfort and company I need – and it’s so horribly dated it doesn’t matter if watching…
ByEven if I hadn’t read the tabloid stories about the band’s struggles, they’d be top of my list in the…
ByI’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is “taboo”.
ByIts transgressive sex scenes are designed to get viewers off, go viral – and would never have been created by…
ByMichael Sheen and Sharon Horgan are magnificent as the father and mother of an unconscious disabled child.
ByThe 18th-century fable about coining gangs, adapted from Benjamin Myers’ novel, is relentless and self-indulgent.
ByIn Logan Roy, Jesse Armstrong and Brian Cox took the archetypal anti-hero and replaced it with a moral black hole…
ByEach season, subtle changes are made to the credits sequence. What do they mean?
ByAn emerging genre blurs the lines between reality TV and scripted comedy. But who is the butt of the joke?
ByJames Bluemel’s documentary series may be the best television ever made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
BySmith’s life, death and now – thanks to a new Netflix documentary – after-life was a spectacle.
ByThere are countless other series just like this true crime drama. Is it any wonder I found it so wearying,…
ByFrom Peep Show to Gossip Girl, new versions of classic 2000s shows fail to understand why their time period was…
ByForget The Crown – the uncanny veracity of this wild satire rings out like the dinner gong at Balmoral.
ByThis series from the makers of Line of Duty is set in a Yorkshire hospital – and follows drugs, corruption…
ByThe pain of Moat’s victims has been callously put aside, all to make another middling series with a middling cast.…
ByFrom Dreamland to The Power, shows are still signposting the astonishing revelation that women are complex people, too.
ByPay close attention to the first episode: it contains not just text and subtext, but a third layer – something…
BySteven Knight’s crass, sexed-up version of the novel strips it of all its humour and tenderness. Does he think he’s…
ByEven before Flintoff’s tragic accident, the BBC show’s macho speed stunts felt outdated and gratuitous.
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