All Critics articles – Page 42
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CriticsRules of the Game
“A mad thriller in which Peake vapes her way through each episode with a set of eyebrows that make her look like Cheshire’s answer to Cruella de Vil”
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CriticsCouples Therapy
“This is electrifying television (to me, anyway), from the non-verbal communication to the slow unspooling of ordinary human lives”
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CriticsAnt & Dec’s Limitless Win; The Green Planet; The Killer Nanny
“The most viscerally thrilling big-money game show since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
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CriticsScrew; The Apprentice
“This is broad and warm and welcoming, with enough of a sharp side to make it worth sticking with”
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CriticsMandy; The Repair Shop
‘One of the best episodes of Mandy I have seen. Diane Morgan as the workshy mouth-chewing halfwit Mandy Carter was at her sullen best’
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CriticsThe Language of Love; Toast of Tinseltown; PEN15
“This is a holiday romance stripped to its component parts and reassembled by TV producers”
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CriticsFour Lives; Anne; The Tourist
“Four Lives doesn’t linger on the crimes themselves, but balances the events leading up to them with the fallout”
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CriticsThe Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special
‘It would take some doing to derail the Bee’
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CriticsWe Wish You a Mandy Christmas; Would I Lie To You?
‘With no agenda other than to make viewers laugh, it was cartoonishly larger-than-life and infectiously funny’
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CriticsThe Girl Before + Strictly Come Dancing; The Weakest Link; Gomorrah
“Lisa Bruhlmann cut her teeth on Killing Eve and at times you can see echoes of that series’ more kinetic approach”
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CriticsI Literally Just Told You
“Carr is a quick, funny host, on this occasion even sparing us his honking-mule laugh”
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CriticsChristmas at Castle Howard
“Basically a sales brochure for the castle’s Christmas in Narnia experience.”
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CriticsNaughty & Nice: Sex Toy Britain
“Keeps the interrogation of the public about their use of wands, rabbits, butt plugs and all the vibrant, vibrating rest of it to a minimum.”
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CriticsDavid Baddiel: Social Media, Anger and Us
“This was a thought-provoking documentary – with a quality that social media positively hates: nuance”
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CriticsWalk The Line
“There was a pre-Christmas giddiness to the whole thing that might be just what the British public fancy right now”
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CriticsAnd Just Like That
“The pointed absence of Kim Cattrall as its fourth wheel meant the funny filth quota was sadly much depleted”
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CriticsDolly: The Sheep That Changed The World + Welcome to Earth; Walking with Monica Galetti
“The film reminded us of the ethical worries about potential human cloning that fuelled TV discussion programmes at the time”
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CriticsLandscapers + Two Doors Down; Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Romantic Road Trip
“Exhilarating, eccentric and endlessly surprising – Landscapers might have left it late but it’s one of the best dramas of 2021.”
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CriticsCritics: Two Doors Down
“The scripts are sharp, with one-liners that can make me laugh out loud”