TV critics – Page 29
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CriticsEveryone Else Burns; How the Holocaust Began
“Every line has a comic payoff and every character, from the leads down to the supporting players, is well-written”
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CriticsThe Warship: Tour of Duty; Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
“The focus on a handful of people made the documentary tremendously engaging”
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CriticsMaternal; The Last of Us
“The show is formulaic to a degree, but has grit in the storytelling oyster that produces something rather wonderful”
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CriticsBad Education; Dancing On Ice; The Traitors US; Mayor of Kingstown; The Last of Us
“It too often comes across as juvenile – but not in a fun way.”
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CriticsIn the Footsteps of Killers; Britain’s Notorious Prisons; Break Point; Hunters
“It feels at times borderline contemptuous of the stories on show”
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CriticsNext Level Chef; The Reunion; No Place Like Home
“A breathless, bewildering gabble of a show”
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CriticsWelcome to Chippendales; Life After Love Island; The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker; New Lives In The Wild
“A moreish junk-food binge and as enjoyable as it is at the time, it will leave you feeling a little bit grubby”
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CriticsThe Last of Us; The US and the Holocaust
“The Last of Us is a rare piece of television: an adaptation that makes you want to rush out and play the game”
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CriticsHarry: The Interview; Spector; The Kardashians: Billion Dollar Dynasty
“Harry: The Interview amounts to what must be the longest ever advert for an audiobook”
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CriticsThe Rig; The Apprentice; The Madame Blanc Mysteries
“You should, and will, gobble The Rig up like a tin of Quality Street”
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CriticsThe Light in the Hall; Our Flag Means Death; Ukraine: The People’s Fight
“It has good acting, beautiful surroundings and wonderful accents”
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CriticsWaterloo Road; 2022: The Year from Space
“To give Waterloo Road some grace, the drama was tightly scripted and well cast”
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CriticsStonehouse; Happy Valley
“The brief rise, and astonishing fall, of John Stonehouse makes for enormously entertaining television”
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CriticsThe Traitors; Riches; Inside No. 9
“Quite simply, there hasn’t been a new entertainment format on TV as good as this for 20 years”
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CriticsVardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama; Emily in Paris
“It was a good reminder of the emptiness of modern culture”
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CriticsI Hate Suzie Too; Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas
“It is so unlike anything else on television, in its raw honesty, that I couldn’t tear myself away”
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CriticsPaul O’Grady’s For The Love Of Dogs; Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas; The Unofficial Science of Home Alone
“Paul has been filming at Battersea for more than a decade and the format never changes because it’s exactly right as it is”