All Critics articles – Page 32
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CriticsThe Love Box in Your Living Room; Lost Worlds with Ben Fogle
“Patting yourself on the back looks better when you send yourself up”
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CriticsKids’ TV: The Surprising Story; The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit; Doc Martin
“The presenter Konnie Huq’s argument that kids’ TV has often left grown-up society playing catch-up was cogently made”
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CriticsLouis Theroux interviews; Jimmy Carr Destroys Art; The White Lotus
“Theroux is at his best away from the interview couch, free to explore the crazy world of celebrity on his own idiosyncratic terms”
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CriticsThe Pact; Made in the 80s: The Decade that Shaped Our World
“Cosy enough to snuggle down with as the nights draw in, but not so formulaic that you might drift off on the sofa, it proved eminently absorbing”
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CriticsDoctor Who; House Of The Dragon; Bloodlands
“This feature-length special, titled The Power of the Doctor, was perhaps the best episode of his patchy five-year stint as supremo”
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CriticsGangs of London; The Peripheral; Aldi’s Next Big Thing
“The bloodiest drama ever screened. Some images of evisceration would turn the stomach of Vlad the Impaler”
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CriticsCause of Death; The Elon Musk Show; Gangs of London; Chapelwaite
“A respectful and unsensational series, offering a window into a process that usually takes place behind closed doors”
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CriticsAmol Rajan Interviews Greta Thunberg; Rob Burrow: Living with MND
“Rajan’s friendly but never patronising approach was effective”
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CriticsThe House Across the Street; The Fire Within; Behind the Rage; Untold: Inside the Shein Machine
“The House Across the Street combined sharply observed characters with a genuinely compelling concept”
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CriticsCritics: Somewhere Boy
“Somewhere Boy turned out not only to be beautifully pitched, but also tender, funny and oddly life-affirming”
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CriticsI Hate You; Shantaram; TS Eliot: Into the Waste Land
“I don’t think these two characters are developed enough yet, but they do have huge potential”
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CriticsThe Elon Musk Show; TraumaZone
“The film told Musk’s origin story with verve and insight, even if it fell at the final hurdle of unpicking the essence of its subject”
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CriticsCandy; Trump: The Comeback?; Sensationalists
“The episodes are teeming with beautiful details but the people occupying these spaces feel undercooked”
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CriticsMaxine; Katie Price: Trauma and Me
“Judged solely as a piece of drama, it works effectively”
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CriticsWreck; Raising the Mary Rose; Karen Pirie
“This is exactly the kind of telly that BBC3 should be making”
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CriticsUnbreakable; Jon Richardson: Take My Mother-in-Law; My Grandparent’s War
“A charmless child of I’m a Celebrity and Mr and Mrs that told us virtually nothing about human relationships”
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CriticsRalph & Katie; The Bear; Head On
“The actors are fantastic, and you will not see a better routine than Ralph’s choreography to ‘Knock on Wood’ on television this year”
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CriticsPaxman: Putting Up With Parkinson’s; Make Me Prime Minister; The Bear
“Fascinating, grown-up, unsparing television”
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CriticsThe Walk-In; The Big Blow Out
“This gritty, disturbing drama manages to squeeze pathos out of one of the most troubling stories in recent British history”
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CriticsStanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; Everyone Can Rap; 1978; Dal y Mellt
“Defined by Tucci’s natural charm and laid-back enjoyment of all he experiences, it makes for particularly soothing Sunday night viewing”