All Critics articles – Page 126
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CriticsTV Critics: The Ladykillers: Pest Detectives; The Quizeum; Hillary Clinton: The Power of Women
“In a show about vermin, humanity lay thick on the ground.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure; Teens; Burger Bar to Gourmet Star
“It needed the extra jokey-blokes stuff like a tortilla needs mayonnaise.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Trevor McDonald Meets the Mafia; Storyville: Masterspy of Moscow; Tom Felton Meets the Superfans
“Godfather of the news he might have been but Trevor “The Mac” McDonald just hasn’t got the muscle for this one.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity; Caribbean with Simon Reeve; Poldark
“The annoying thing about Louis Theroux is that even his laziest documentaries are pretty brilliant.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True; Muslim Miss World; The Truth About Sugar
“Things We Won’t Say about Race That Are True may be among the most important documentaries of the decade.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop; Eat To Live Forever With Giles Coren; Three In A Bed
As with the famous chicken product, one bite sufficed for me.
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Back in Time for Dinner; Fighting the System
“If anything, Ordinary Lies is a victim of bad timing: there’s been an awful lot of duplicity on TV recently.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Raised by Wolves; Kew on a Plate; A Fair Cop; Britain’s Benefit Tenants
“Bright, brash, blinking funny and brilliantly realised”
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CriticsTV Critics: You’re Back in the Room; Nina Conti Clowning Around; Wild Things
“The whole thing is quite retro, and the quiz format adds very little.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Spicing Up Britain; Secrets of Mexico's Drug War; In and Out of the Kitchen
“So many bowls of bhuna, plates of prawn balls and buttered baguettes flashed before us that I began to feel travel sick.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Nurse; Sex, Lies, and Love Bites; Critical; One Born Every Minute
“Beautifully observed, full of pathos and sensitively performed, Nurse’s bedside manner was near-perfect.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Mystery of Murder; The Billion Pound Hotel; Arthur and George; Bluestone 42
“Instead of A Horizon Guide, they might have gone for something more honest. Gee, Isn’t Horizon Great? for example, or Horizon: It’s Been Going For Ages And Here Are All The Clips To Prove It.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; Call the Midwife; Indian Summers
“A beautifully filmed Sunday night romp with a nice bit of substance.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Banished; The Nation's Favourite 70s Number One; The Supervet
“Elements of the story verged on the sentimental. Others felt like they belonged in a Seventies Bond film”
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CriticsTV Critics: DCI Banks; Surviving Sandy Hook; India's Daughter; Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Being Bipolar
“After spending eight weeks watching Olivia Colman and David Tennant do the TV drama equivalent of cleaning the Augean stables, it was nice to watch a detective drama that made sense and was sure of itself.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Super-Powered Owls; No Place To Call Home; Bargain Fever Britain; Better Call Saul
“The film-makers had swallowed a sackful of facts, and were determined to regurgitate them.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Arthur & George; Moone Boy; The Walking Dead
“Sadly, the executives overlooked an unticked box on the line that said: ‘Make it interesting, make sure the viewers actually care what happens.’”
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CriticsTV Critics: Pompidou; The Casual Vacancy; Indian Summers
“Many of the antics reminded me of children’s TV. Apt, given I’m not sure that this show will appeal to anyone over 10.”
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CriticsTV Critics: House of Cards; Wolf Hall; Reinventing the Royals
“This is a show to be enjoyed on a sensual, as much as intellectual, level. From the creepy opening credits, to the inky shadows that seep into every shot, it plays like an ever-darkening study in amorality.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Suffragettes Forever!; The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief; The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
“For connoisseurs of character acting, every week has been like a bath in champagne.”