'Like peeping through the keyhole into the girls' room'. Read on to get the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.

Mistresses, BBC1
“I'm not really invited to the party. Like Sex and the City, it feels, for us mere fripperies, a bit like peeping through the keyhole into the girls' room. I think in future I'll leave my girlfriend to watch, and go and call a mate, just to tell him that I love him.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Mistresses, BBC1
“It's really rather good.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

Mistresses, BBC1
“This is a drama where things happen to people not as a consequence of their characters but as a result of a heavy morning's plot conference.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Mistresses, BBC1
“Despite the denials of the makers, Mistresses looks at first sight -and most subsequent ones - like a British version of Sex and the City.”
James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Mistresses, BBC1
“It looked like ‘Sex and the Suburbs', a privet-hedged version of the dish-and-spill drama.”
Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

The Boys form Baghdad High: This World, BBC2
“It could have done with half an hour trimmed off, but it was still a lovely film.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

The Boys from Baghdad, BBC2
“The ordinariness of these young lives, lived in extraordinary circumstances, was very touching.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

Nature Shock, Five
“... the results of the investigation are very disappointing.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

An Island Parish, BBC2
“quietly compelling portrait of life in Britain's most westerly community.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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