“This was clever, compassionate, clear-sighted drama.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Fallout, C4
“This was clever, compassionate, clear-sighted drama.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Fallout, C4
“Roy Williams's script was spot on - the swagger, the slang, the vicious power plays.”
Gerard O'Donovan, The Daily Telegraph

Fallout, C4
“The end result was a film that was compelling and complicated in the right ways [... ] To feel that TV matters at all is, these days, not something you take for granted.”
Robert Hanks, The Independent

Fallout, C4
“Fallout didn't fulfil its dramatic or political potential. The black kids' patois was authentic but the story didn't progress or the characters surprise.”
Tim Teeman, The Times

Fallout, C4
“The plot was as flat as Hackney Marshes, offering its viewers not a single twist or surprise. Every tiresome cliché in the book was rolled out [... ] In short, it sat somewhere in the middle ground between comic book and melodrama.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

House, Five
“Great finale. Great television.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

Heroes, BBC2
“Heroes didn't so much come to an end as get its characters into place for a new beginning in series three.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

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