All Critics articles – Page 124
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CriticsTV Critics: How to Stay Young; Workers or Shirkers?; Army Girls
“It was a thought-provoking hour that will have had every viewer mentally calculating how many years they could add to their life by dropping this, taking up that and eating more of the other.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The People Next Door; Grantchester; The Reassembler
“A glittering puzzle box of a mystery that hinted at dark deeds without ever fully showing its hand.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Drive; How Not to Do DIY; Bake Off Crème De La Crème
“This is going nowhere and I’d rather sit in traffic.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Marcella; James May: The Reassembler; Sex Box
“The whole thing felt untethered to reality, which didn’t do much for its credibility but helped it to work surprisingly well as drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Undercover; The Durrells
“I didn’t mind not having a clue what was going on, even if at times it felt like at least three different dramas were playing out in tandem.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Line of Duty; The Secret History of My Family; Mission Survive; Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
“What confidence Mercurio has in his storytelling – the nerve, to hold it all back until the second episode!”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bake Off: Crème de la Crème; Murdered By my Father; The A Word
“A bloodless, uninvolving affair at once frenetically busy and yawningly free of incident.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Maigret; The Island; Gok's Lunchbox
“Classier than vin ordinaire, but still an early vintage.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Employable Me; MasterChef; Chef vs Science
“It’s warm, human, moving telly.” Read on for more reviews of last night’s television.
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CriticsTV Critics: The A Word; Ross Kemp's Britain; Exposure
“The whole thing feels slightly underpowered so far – but there are nevertheless some fine moments.”
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CriticsTV Critics: An Island Parish; The Tube; The Food Chain
“An Island Parish made me yearn to flick a stone across the flat sea, and spend a sunny morning watching the world while waiting for a bus.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Follow The Money; Great Canal Journey; Tribes, Predators & Me
“An addictive, tightly plotted thriller was unfolding. Who knew financial crime could be this much fun?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Jo Brand’s Hell of a Walk; Speed with Guy Martin; Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
“Oddly lovely, and a little bit inspiring.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War, Horizon: The Immortalist; The Interviews: Peter Sellers
“A solid narrator with an eye for a good line and a nice way with a haunting image.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Inside Obama’s White House; Happy Valley; First Dates
“Inside Obama’s White House rattled along like a thriller.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Behind Closed Doors; Art of Scandinavia
“This was an honest film about stories that don’t have neat, happy endings.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Indian Summers; Doctor Thorne; Houdini & Doyle
“For all those sumptuous settings and despite the impeccable performances, there remains something slightly hollow at its heart.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret History of My Family; Murder: Lost Weekend;The Secret Life of the Family
“The show relied on the strength of its storytelling to hold our interest.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dunblane: Our Story; Grantchester; Famous, Rich and Homeless
“I defy anyone who watched it not to have welled up – or worse. But at the same time, it was utterly absorbing.”