All Critics articles – Page 36
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CriticsGeorge Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations; 999: Critical Condition; The Baby; Girl in the Picture
“The bit we’re really waiting for is the big reveal. And the result was fabulous”
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CriticsGhislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster; Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
“The three-part series delivers a gripping profile of Maxwell without slipping into grubby prurience”
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CriticsThe Extraordinary Life of April Ashley; Big Zuu’s Big Eats; 24 Hours in Police Custody
“Here was a film which humanised the experience of feeling that you were born in the wrong body”
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CriticsFreedom: 50 Years of Pride; My Life As a Rolling Stone; McDonald & Dodds
“This was precisely the sort of bold but accessible, distinctly British programming that Channel 4 should be making”
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CriticsThe Undeclared War; The Terminal List; Stranger Things
“Broad in scope and rarely letting go of its in-built tension, The Undeclared War feels like a fresh take on political drama”
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CriticsAtlanta; Endangered; Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain; The Great British Sewing Bee
“Atlanta is the Great American Novel trapped inside a flatscreen TV”
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CriticsOnly Murders in the Building; Sherwood; Ellie & Natasia; Everything I Know About Love
“Not since the great Moonlighting of the 1980s has a TV comedy been so joyously, goofily self-aware”
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CriticsAids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Westworld
“The actors were so good and the words so quietly, tragically mesmerising that I forgot within about two minutes that this was a performance”
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CriticsKelly Holmes; Murder in the Alps; Eddie Hall; Lost Treasures Of Rome
“It is precise and convincing, addressing the many responses that the public may have when a famous person comes out of the closet”
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CriticsMan vs Bee; Taskmaster; Who Do You Think You Are?; Loot
“Rowan Atkinson has lost none of his skill and you will watch it quite happily, but it just lacks the genius of Mr Bean”
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CriticsLenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain; Amol Rajan Interviews Billie Jean King; The Offer
“This was a deep dive into the pivotal role played by the Caribbean community in British cultural life in all its dizzying facets”
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CriticsEllie and Natasia; Whistleblowers: Inside the UN; Snowflake Mountain
“Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s comedy series marks the revival of the sketch show but also the arrival in earnest of a formidable new double act”
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CriticsBack in Time for Birmingham; How to Hire a Hitman
“The Sharmas’ likeability helped to make this an enjoyable watch”
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CriticsSuspect; McDonald & Dodds
“As telly two-handers so often are, it is extremely stagey and seems probable to vary in quality depending on who the weekly guest star is”
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CriticsThe Lazarus Project
“It is as gripping, fun and stylish as the acclaimed Giri/Haji, without quite its narrative innovation”
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CriticsThe Savoy; God’s Favorite Idiot; Between the Covers
“If you like thinly disguised adverts for something you probably can’t afford, then I suppose The Savoy was entertaining enough”
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CriticsMiss Scarlet and the Duke; Lucy Worsley Investigates; Halftime; Elephant Hospital
“This felt more like TV to zone out to, to enter a glazed, meditative state, semi-registering the case of the week at hand”
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CriticsMy Name Is Leon; Our Falklands War; Becoming Elizabeth
“It is a more than worthy addition to the thankfully growing canon of television exploring the black British experience”
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are?; Million Pound Pawn; Hacks; Backstage With Katherine Ryan
“His family’s story provided an interesting, saddening prism through which to see how the poor were treated”