All Critics articles – Page 2
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CriticsThe Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer; The Hairy Bikers Go West; Palm Royale
“To the programme’s great credit it set about systematically dismantling any remaining pretence that this snake was just some kind of cuddly toy”
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CriticsComa; Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure
“It is painful to watch but very, very moreish, depicting a depressingly familiar nightmare that could happen to anyone”
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CriticsThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer; Casualty; Hunted
“Bake Off has been going stale for a while now, but the celebrity versions at least inject some vim and irreverence into a lacklustre format”
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CriticsManhunt; Un Amore; Whitstable Pearl; Somerset: Wonder Of The West Country
“It is well put together and visually gorgeous but poorly attuned to our modern, fleeting attention spans”
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CriticsThe Idaho Murders; Love Rat; The Rise And Fall Of Boris Johnson
“The documentary perfectly captured the atmosphere of drifting down an algorithmic rabbit hole”
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CriticsRoyal Kill List; Interior Design Masters
“Manages to be a thrilling adventure story while still conveying the seismic, country-changing scale of the events”
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CriticsIs University Really Worth It?; Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax
“If I was thinking about university as I watched this, I’d rip up my application and become a plumber instead”
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CriticsForensics: The Real CSI; The Great Pottery Throw Down; How to With John Wilson
“What makes this programme so gripping is the depth of detail”
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CriticsThe Gentlemen; The Marlow Murder Club; The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson
“The bottom line is that it is entertaining and it will make you laugh”
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CriticsMary & George; Extraordinary
“If you like your history raunchy, randy and sweary, it’s great fun”
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CriticsSarah Everard: The Search for Justice; Celebrity Big Brother; The Way
“Told the well-known story with an appropriately understated, clear-eyed lack of sensationalism”
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CriticsThe Push; How the BBC Began
“True crime documentaries can be a prurient business but The Push was remarkable”
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CriticsThe Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin; Dead Hot; Things You Should Have Done
“I had forgotten what a singular talent Noel Fielding is. Here they just wind him up and let him go: he stands and he delivers”
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CriticsMary & George; Landscape Artist of the Year; Bring the Drama
“Underneath the heaving buttocks, there’s an interesting depiction of life at the advent of modernity”
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CriticsNew Model Agency; Dead in the Water; Shogun
“The temptation to stab yourself in the thigh with a fork grows with every passing minute”
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CriticsThe Jury: Murder Trial; Shōgun
“It is wholly addictive and possibly even valuable television”
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CriticsInseparable Sisters; Avatar: The Last Airbender; Constellation
Inseparable Sisters, BBC1 “Inseparable Sisters, by film-maker Nick Hartley, is an intimate, uplifting documentary and the culmination of BBC Wales Today anchor Lucy Owen following Marieme and Ndeye’s progress for several years. What emerges is a utopian picture of a loving, fully functioning – and, ...