All Critics articles
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CriticsPrisoner; The House Of The Spirits
“A half-decent cat-and-mouse has to work very hard not to grab you, and Prisoner is too well-built to fail completely”
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CriticsA Taste For Murder; Should I Marry a Murderer?
“Delivers all the essentials and several of the garnishes”
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CriticsWidow’s Bay
“Rich and wonderful. Grownup, funny, scary, true – Mare of Easttown meets Schitt’s Creek, but with something else that makes it singular”
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CriticsSecret Service; Virgin Island
“Confidently paced and slickly directed and there are enough big things happening at regular intervals to keep it all ticking over”
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CriticsThe Cage; The Neighbourhood
“An astonishing, deeply angry, deeply moving state-of-the-nation piece merely masquerading as a mesmerising, perfectly paced and plotted thriller”
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CriticsThis Is a Gardening Show; Race Across The World; Stranger Things: Tales from ’85
“It’s funny, looks beautiful and brims with such unalloyed enthusiasm that you can’t help but fall in line”
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CriticsHalf Man; Saint-Pierre
“If Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is to be shown in schools, Half Man needs to be shown in any place men gather”
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CriticsMint; Unchosen
“Mint might be the most outrageously beautiful television show since Twin Peaks”
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CriticsQueen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century; The Murder Line
“The programme is a portrait of the late Queen’s life but also a means of looking back through the decades at our own, more ordinary lives”
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CriticsA Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough; Beef; Big Mood; Bergerac
“It is a conservation success story and a love letter to the gorilla, told beautifully by the undisputed silverback of natural history broadcasting”
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CriticsGrayson Perry Has Seen the Future
“A profoundly dispiriting inventory of what we can expect from our smartphones and gadgets in the next few years”
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CriticsSam & Ade Go Birding; Margo’s Got Money Troubles; Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service
“We need shows like this. Gentle men unafraid to examine their feelings”
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CriticsMiriam Margolyes Made Me Me; Missed Call
“It felt as if we were getting the unguarded Margolyes”
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CriticsYour Song; Euphoria
“Like The Piano, Your Song is playing all the right talent-show notes, but not necessarily in the right order”
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CriticsMalcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair; The Miniature Wife; Big Mistakes
“It’s faster and funnier than before, its emotional beats hitting harder and its story hanging together as a cohesive whole”
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CriticsTwenty Twenty Six; The Assembly; Michael Jackson: An American Tragedy
“Supremely surefooted and, beneath its gentle surface, pleasingly scabrous”
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CriticsThe Testaments; André Is an Idiot; Ligas
“An impressive follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, lightening the tone, upping the pace”
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CriticsSecret Garden; Untold: Chess Mates
“English gardens can be as wild as anywhere in the world. It’s all just on a smaller scale”
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CriticsHatton Garden: The Great Diamond Heist
“It was still grimly compelling, even if you have seen the various films and documentaries that have already been made about this subject”