All Critics articles
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CriticsWitches of Essex; Murdaugh: Death in the Family
“It made for a poignant and striking story of state-sanctioned violence and misogyny that could have done without the cheap gags”
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CriticsThe Chair Company; Pete Wicks: For Dog’s Sake
“This is a comedy that frequently makes you cringe and regularly makes you laugh”
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CriticsRiot Women
“Riot Women takes its time to come into its own – but, when it does, it is full-throated and glorious”
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CriticsDreaming Whilst Black; The Taste Test Restaurant; Boots
“Please, good BBC sirs, deliver unto us series three with haste! And don’t spare the horses!”
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CriticsThe Celebrity Traitors; Victoria Beckham; Perfect Pub Walks
“It’s good fun and certainly has the potential to get funnier”
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CriticsMurder Before Evensong; Film Club; Worlds Apart
“This has all the makings of a long-running series”
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CriticsJoe Wicks: Licensed to Kill
“This was brave television and not your average health documentary”
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CriticsFrauds; How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
“Emotionally rich and profoundly intelligent piece of entertainment that is feminist to its bones without preaching and in every way a triumph”
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CriticsSharon & Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home
“Coming Home is intimate, offbeat, sometimes awkward and bumbling, but ultimately very moving”
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CriticsDisclosure: Care Home Undercover; Perfect Pub Walks; Grand Designs
“What the film does do – brilliantly, blood-boilingly – is to show us just how grim it can be, and how much money is being made in the process”
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CriticsTaylor; Art’s Most Erotic
“Those who featured here made a good job of explaining why she inspires such intense admiration”
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CriticsNine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue; The Disappearance of Jay Slater
“I don’t know that anything has given me greater or purer joy this year”
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CriticsHouse of Guinness; The Hack
“Comparisons to Peaky Blinders are inevitable, but House of Guinness is a self-contained, captivating drama on its own merit”
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CriticsSlow Horses
“The first episode of the new series suggests we’re in for another darkly comic thrill ride as good as any of the previous outings”
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CriticsDisease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic
“Van Tulleken’s approach was methodical, explaining abstruse science in an accessible way”
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CriticsCovid Contracts; Strictly Come Dancing; Deep Ocean
“Watching this programme forces us to at least consider something that is almost too disgusting to contemplate”
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CriticsBlack Rabbit
“If Ozark meets The Bear is an elevator pitch that gets your attention, this might be your next favourite series in the shape of this crime drama”