“Unpromising on paper, this likeable little travelogue was ultimately uplifting.”
A Cabbie Abroad, BBC2
“Ever wondered what Top Gear would be like if the posturing presenters and casual racism were replaced by a genuine interest in the lives of local people.? This is it, and it’s soooo much better.”
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“There’s a bit of history and social history and social injustice and extreme dining, mixed in with the traffic and tuk-tukking. And McQueen, with Doot’s help, is an excellent travelling companion – enthusiastic, interested and sympathetic without being all head-to-one side, hand-wringy, I-feel-your-pain worthy.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“There was genuine affection between the Cambodian and the Cockney, taxi drivers from different worlds but united by human warmth and enterpreneurial spirit. Unpromising on paper, this likeable little travelogue – pitched somewhere between a Michael Palin journey and a Top Gear stunt – was ultimately uplifting.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph
“No one who visits Cambodia can fail to be touched by its dignified and gracious people and our subject, a warm generous type, was no excepion. Yet McQueen’s take on the country was sometimes as superficial as the average backpacker’s.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Fargo, Channel 4
“This blackly comic crime drama has been a real treat, stylishly made, charismatically performed, with plenty of plot twists to pull the rug from under us every time we thought we’d got the measure of it. Fargo has been the series of 2014 so far. This finale didn’t disappoint.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph
“Over Fargo’s ten weeks, Martin Freeman has been a delight. The quiet man turning up the volume to deafening has been done before and obviously just as well by Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad, but Freeman brought an especial smugness to his insurance salesman Lester Nygaard, the man who kept getting away with murder.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
Wallander, BBC4
“The finale’s mood was neither self-congratulatory, nor excessively mournful. Instead, like our detectives’ parting words to his colleagues, it was touchingly modest.”
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“Thanks to creator Henning Mankell, lead actor Krister Henriksson and all involved in Wallander over the years. Although it was pitiful to see the detective unable to tie his own shoelaces on Saturday, at least we were spared his suicide.”
Andrew Billen, The Times
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