All Critics articles – Page 139
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CriticsTV Critics: Tutankhamun; Afghanistan; Rome
“These revelations felt intrusive and unnecessary. Can we not let sleeping mummies lie?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Story; Peaky Blinders; The Great Fire
“What fabulous, amazing television. We should count ourselves very lucky to be able to see it.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grayson Perry: Who Are You?; How to Get Away with Murder; The Apprentice
“With every passing minute of Grayson Perry: Who Are You? it became clearer who Grayson Perry was: simply the most intelligent artist working in Britain today.”
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CriticsTV Critics: You Can’t Get the Staff; Children in Need - Sewing Bee; American Horror Story
“It zoomed in unnecessarily on the odd rolled eye and ghastly comment when there were far more interesting things going on, far more interesting people revealing their unique lives.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Gotham; The Walking Dead; Big Dreams, Small Spaces; The Art of Gothic
“Gotham continues to be an ace hoot. It really shouldn’t be, as it’s much the most violent thing on the small screen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit; Downton Abbey; Not Going Out
“This was an evocative seat at the tyrant’s bedside.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Fire; The Knick; Detectorists
“The opener was surprisingly limp, until the fire itself showed up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Curing Cancer; Trust Me, I’m a Doctor; The Apprentice
“This gentle film was like sunlight itself.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice, Spandau Ballet: True Gold
“Every year, it pulls me back in with its addictive alchemy: brilliantly cast, beautifully edited and cleverly compelling.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Gotham; Grantchester
“It sped by in a riot of colour, action and deep moral duplicity.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Homeland; Downton Abbey; The Code
“This is a fabulous episode, jam-packed with thrills and promise for the series.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Peaky Blinders; Who Do You Think You Are?; Scrotal Recall; Detectorists
“Peaky Blinders is setting the bar very high for British drama.”
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NewsTV Critics: True Stories: Extreme Brat Camp; Our Zoo
“A disturbing trip to a brat camp where kids get the Full Metal Jacket treatment.”
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NewsTV Critics: Human Universe; The Driver; Cat Watch 2014
“The desire to lead us ‘on a journey’ was so overwhelming, it seemed, that many of the points got lost along the way.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Kitchen; Grantchester
“All the stairs in the Shard wouldn’t provide enough naughty steps for this lot.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Sacred Rivers; Wonders of the Monsoon; Doctor Who
“Another richly intriguing slice of geopolitical travelogue from the thinking man’s Michael Palin.”
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NewsTV Critics: Detectorists; Peaky Blinders; Blenheim Palace: Great War House; Scotal Recall
“It’s sharp, nicely observed, good to look at, with lovely understated performances from Crook and Toby Jones.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Paedophile Hunter; Crackanory; The Long Shadow
“There is no element of this that is not disturbing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ramsay's Costa del Nightmares; The Driver; My £999 Wedding
“Maybe he does save the restaurant, but it’s not nice to watch.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours in Police Custody; Horizon: Is Your Brain Male or Female?; Cilla
“This was eyeballs-glued-to-the-screen fascinating.”


















