All Critics articles – Page 57
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CriticsSecond Hand for 50 Grand
“Credit to the producers for finding stories with some heart to them – but at the end of the day, it was still mostly about the cash”
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CriticsGlow Up: Britain’s Next Make-Up Star
“It’s joyful, harmless, celebratory fun and there is, as ever, a rightful place for that.”
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CriticsMare of Easttown
“A millefeuille of misery, as exquisitely layered and as moreish as the real thing”
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CriticsCall the Midwife
“No other series so skilfully smuggles a quiet radicalism and difficult themes into a pre-watershed package of charm and kindness”
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CriticsFrank of Ireland
“Brian and Domhnall have clearly been cracking each other up since childhood and their ease in each other’s company was infectious”
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CriticsBent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty
“A pacy and gripping first episode owed less to Ted Hastings and AC-12 than to shaggy-mopped Seventies favourites such as The Sweeney”
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CriticsAll That Glitters
“It’ll need a lot of cutting and polishing, but there’s the raw material for a charming series in All That Glitters.”
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CriticsMeet the Richardsons
“It makes for a zippy half-hour and I happily cackled away for much of it.”
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CriticsThe Day William and Kate Got Married
“For a royal documentary, it was surprisingly entertaining”
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CriticsThe Michelangelo Code: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel
“It was fascinating but the sheer accumulation of conspiracies and religious mysteries in the two-hour documentary became overwhelming”
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CriticsIn Jane Austen’s Footsteps with Giles Brandreth
“Austen would surely have been cheered by the boundless enthusiasm Brandreth brought to this big-hearted tribute.”
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CriticsThe Syndicate
“You know what you’re getting from a Kay Mellor drama, and The Syndicate is the writer/creator at her most Mellor-ish.”
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CriticsKeeping Faith
“It is like watching the video for Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart on repeat.”
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CriticsBlack Power: A British Story of Resistance
“This was a mesmerising, horrifying piece of social history that should be shown in schools”
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CriticsKate Garraway: Finding Derek
“Finding Derek should be compulsory viewing for all mask refuseniks.”