Bridget Christie’s The Change and the rise of menopause media
I’d take Christie’s dark humour over Davina McCall’s washboard stomach any day. But let’s stop pretending the topic is “taboo”.
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What HBO’s The Idol teaches us about porn
Its transgressive sex scenes are designed to get viewers off, go viral – and would never have been created by…
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BBC One’s Best Interests captures the horror of parental grief
Michael Sheen and Sharon Horgan are magnificent as the father and mother of an unconscious disabled child.
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Shane Meadows’ The Gallows Pole has plenty of vomiting and swearing – but very little drama
The 18th-century fable about coining gangs, adapted from Benjamin Myers’ novel, is relentless and self-indulgent.
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How Succession created TV’s first irredeemable leading man
In Logan Roy, Jesse Armstrong and Brian Cox took the archetypal anti-hero and replaced it with a moral black hole…
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The secrets of the Succession opening titles
Each season, subtle changes are made to the credits sequence. What do they mean?
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The problem with The Rehearsal and Jury Duty
An emerging genre blurs the lines between reality TV and scripted comedy. But who is the butt of the joke?
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland reveals the madness of sectarianism
James Bluemel’s documentary series may be the best television ever made about Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
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How the tabloid media turned on Anna Nicole Smith
Smith’s life, death and now – thanks to a new Netflix documentary – after-life was a spectacle.
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Steeltown Murders left me bored and furious
There are countless other series just like this true crime drama. Is it any wonder I found it so wearying,…
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The curse of the Noughties reboot
From Peep Show to Gossip Girl, new versions of classic 2000s shows fail to understand why their time period was…
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The Windsors is the most painfully accurate depiction of the royals on TV
Forget The Crown – the uncanny veracity of this wild satire rings out like the dinner gong at Balmoral.
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ITV’s Malpractice is preposterous – but so gripping, you won’t mind
This series from the makers of Line of Duty is set in a Yorkshire hospital – and follows drugs, corruption…
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ITV’s Raoul Moat drama is sickening, cynical TV
The pain of Moat’s victims has been callously put aside, all to make another middling series with a middling cast.…
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The limits of “female experience” TV
From Dreamland to The Power, shows are still signposting the astonishing revelation that women are complex people, too.
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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…
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The BBC’s new Great Expectations is so bad it should be illegal
Steven Knight’s crass, sexed-up version of the novel strips it of all its humour and tenderness. Does he think he’s…
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Top Gear is finished
Even before Flintoff’s tragic accident, the BBC show’s macho speed stunts felt outdated and gratuitous.
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The Cockfields is a genius, black-hearted British social comedy
I was hysterical with laughter watching this Diane Morgan-starring series from David Earl and Joe Wilkinson.
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David Attenborough’s Wild Isles makes me proud to be British, despite everything
The new series, which roams from Shetland to Cornwall to Northern Ireland to capture our wildlife, is the BBC at…
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