All Critics articles – Page 2
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CriticsDavid Frost Vs…; 25 Years of Location, Location, Location; Overcompensating
“Some of the programmes in this series are better than others, but this one is surely the money shot”
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CriticsChange Your Mind, Change Your Life; Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story
“Having never been in therapy, I found it interesting to learn what goes on, and it might encourage those who are considering it to take the plunge”
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CriticsThe Game; Virgin Island; Inside Our ADHD Minds
“Channel 5 dramas aren’t expensively done, but they’re certainly entertaining”
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CriticsUnforgotten: The Bradford City Fire; The Assembly; A Life Among Elephants
“It is an excellent documentary, made with care and respect, and a worthy memorial”
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CriticsThe Trial; Poker Face
“Channel 5 deserves credit for bringing back what is essentially a Play for Today format’
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CriticsOctopus!; Dead Man Walking; Long Way Home; The Repair Shop
“Captures the bizarre elegance and unsettling everything about the boneless beings while dishing out enough facts and figures”
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CriticsYou Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment
“What could have been a tacky experiment was well-made and informative”
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CriticsMan Like Mobeen; VE Day 80: We Were There
“The new series is an intensely likeable and very funny exercise in building characters and then having them make the same mistakes again and again”
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CriticsThe Four Seasons; Genius Game
“Netflix has taken the unvarnished joy of the film and added a slick coat of gloss”
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CriticsSuspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes; Cheat: Unfinished Business
“Suspect is an enraging picture of what went wrong and how”
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CriticsThe Essex Millionaire Murders; The Honesty Box
“The Essex Millionaire Murders is about as good as terrestrial true crime gets”
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CriticsLouis Theroux: The Settlers
“His documentary is an intimate and often shocking picture of what is happening on the ground”
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CriticsRace Across the World; I, Jack Wright; Flintoff
“Race Across the World proves once again that reality TV does not have to be fatuous tosh for the hard of thinking”
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CriticsJoe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham; Andor; Who Do You Think You Are?
“It is the daftest of conceits held together by Lycett’s charm and wit”
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CriticsPilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps; 999: The Critical List
“Pilgrimage is quietly brilliant in the way TV isn’t really allowed to be anymore”
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CriticsThe Stolen Girl; Government Cheese
“It is a gripping ride and you’ll definitely be saying no to sleepovers for a while”
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CriticsThe Last of Us; The Feud
“Bloody, packed with bombshells and brimming with tragedy, it takes all that was best about series one and cranks it up to the absolute maximum”