All Critics articles – Page 4
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CriticsWednesday; Platonic
“The season opener is wonderfully skittish and dense with jokes and plot”
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CriticsWhat Happened at Hiroshima; King of the Hill; Celebrity SAS
“Strange that such an important matter was shoehorned into a half-hour slot”
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CriticsParenthood
“If the script isn’t always the sharpest, it really doesn’t matter when the visuals are this good”
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CriticsQueen Victoria: Secret Marriage Secret Child; Chief of War; The Gone
“Dr Riddell is extremely invested in this love story and her enthusiasm made for good television”
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CriticsPompeii: Life in the City; 1000 Men and Me
“It was the kind of midweek history programme to be filed under gently interesting”
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CriticsKamikaze: An Untold History; Irvine Welsh: The Next Chapter
“Grimly fascinating documentary”
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CriticsThe Assassin; Inside the Cult of Jesus Army
“The Assassin is perfectly crafted preposterousness”
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CriticsUnforgivable; The Assassin; One Day in Southport
“It is a heavy, melancholy 100-minute single watch but it is worth every one of those minutes”
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CriticsThe Couple Next Door; Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
“Watching the finale was like fever-dreaming after a night on the cheese and port plus a tab of LSD.”
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CriticsWashington Black; Critical: Between Life and Death
“Washington Black feels less like a grownup drama and more like the sort of quasi-historical show teachers play to their pupils”
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CriticsKaren Pirie; The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“The drama strikes just the right tone, treating the crime seriously but leavening it with shots of humour”
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CriticsThe Great Fire of London With Rob Rinder & Ruth Goodman; Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House?
“We tune in to learn the surprising details… it was rather effective”
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CriticsUntamed; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
“If you like your TV series to start with a bang and to cause a severe drop to your stomach then Untamed certainly delivers on that score”
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CriticsMix Tape; Bookish
“Mix Tape wallows blissfully in the nostalgic afterglow of a teenage love affair”
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CriticsCritics: Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters
“As a gentle corrective to the villainy of Jaws’ mechanical monster, and an alternative take on the nature doc, this is quite lovely”
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CriticsMy Mom Jayne; Jaws @ 50; Noel Edmonds’ Kiwi Adventure
“My Mom Jayne is tender rather than schmaltzy, compassionate rather than hagiographic”
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CriticsFoundation; The Great Plague With Rob Rinder & Ruth Goodman
“Foundation is one of the most bonkers TV shows ever made and all the richer for that lack of inhibition”
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CriticsToo Much; Poisoned: Killer in the Post
“Too Much is a rom-com with bite, noir and pin-sharp observations”
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