All Critics articles
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CriticsCritics: Sue Perkins’ Big American Road Trip
“The programme is a standard gentle travelogue format done well”
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After Life; Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific
“The comedy’s depiction of grief, depression and friendship is tender and, at times, groundbreaking in its honesty”
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The Bay; The Journalist
“I was never mad on this drama to be honest, but this was a well-written episode and Marsha Thomason has made a strong start”
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Rules of the Game
“A mad thriller in which Peake vapes her way through each episode with a set of eyebrows that make her look like Cheshire’s answer to Cruella de Vil”
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Couples Therapy
“This is electrifying television (to me, anyway), from the non-verbal communication to the slow unspooling of ordinary human lives”
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Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win; The Green Planet; The Killer Nanny
“The most viscerally thrilling big-money game show since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
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Screw; The Apprentice
“This is broad and warm and welcoming, with enough of a sharp side to make it worth sticking with”
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Mandy; The Repair Shop
‘One of the best episodes of Mandy I have seen. Diane Morgan as the workshy mouth-chewing halfwit Mandy Carter was at her sullen best’
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The Language of Love; Toast of Tinseltown; PEN15
“This is a holiday romance stripped to its component parts and reassembled by TV producers”
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Four Lives; Anne; The Tourist
“Four Lives doesn’t linger on the crimes themselves, but balances the events leading up to them with the fallout”
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The Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special
‘It would take some doing to derail the Bee’
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We Wish You a Mandy Christmas; Would I Lie To You?
‘With no agenda other than to make viewers laugh, it was cartoonishly larger-than-life and infectiously funny’
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The Girl Before + Strictly Come Dancing; The Weakest Link; Gomorrah
“Lisa Bruhlmann cut her teeth on Killing Eve and at times you can see echoes of that series’ more kinetic approach”
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I Literally Just Told You
“Carr is a quick, funny host, on this occasion even sparing us his honking-mule laugh”
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Christmas at Castle Howard
“Basically a sales brochure for the castle’s Christmas in Narnia experience.”
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Naughty & Nice: Sex Toy Britain
“Keeps the interrogation of the public about their use of wands, rabbits, butt plugs and all the vibrant, vibrating rest of it to a minimum.”
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David Baddiel: Social Media, Anger and Us
“This was a thought-provoking documentary – with a quality that social media positively hates: nuance”
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Walk The Line
“There was a pre-Christmas giddiness to the whole thing that might be just what the British public fancy right now”
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And Just Like That
“The pointed absence of Kim Cattrall as its fourth wheel meant the funny filth quota was sadly much depleted”
