TV critics – Page 33
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CriticsKaren Pirie; Am I Being Unreasonable?; Bloodlands; Strictly Come Dancing
“It’s meaty, well-paced and surefooted”
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CriticsLife After Deaf; My Grandparents’ War; Westminster Abbey: Behind Closed Doors
“The programme becomes a study not just of a family’s dynamic but of wider cultural attitudes”
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CriticsThe Jeffrey Dahmer Story; Britain’s Best Woodworker; The Repair Shop
“If Monster has a saving grace it is Evan Peters in the title role”
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CriticsCrossfire; Andor; Cunk on Earth; Michael Palin: Into Iraq
“It’s an odd and awkward thriller, an action adventure bolted on to a domestic civil war”
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CriticsBloodlands; Sisterhood; Mastermind, House of the Dragon
”It is unrelentingly dour with few likeable characters”
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CriticsAll Creatures Great and Small; My Grandparents’ War; Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick
“What better time to have a nostalgic throwback to a simpler age of decency and integrity and a host of lovely animals in the Yorkshire Dales”
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CriticsMinx; Shetland; Changing Rooms; Sins of our Mother
“It trips along lightly, with plenty of fun deriving from the odd-couple chemistry between the two leads”
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CriticsThe Great British Bake Off; Storyville: Gorbachev. Heaven; Heartbreak High
“A depiction of a diverse Britain healing itself through the medium of cake”
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CriticsThe Capture; The Anthrax Attacks; The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
“The message as outlined was eerily apt in an era of fake news and corrupted imagery”
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CriticsFrozen Planet II; Munich Games; House of the Dragon; Stolen; Simon Reeve’s South America
“You cannot stay unengaged, you cannot remain unmoved by the sight of nature in all her glory”
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CriticsDoc Martin; Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses; Wedding Season
“It is comforting, gently funny and always entertaining”
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CriticsFirst Dates Hotel; Days That Shook the BBC; Fake or Fortune?; Get Smart With Money
“This dating show has something many of its rivals lack: its heart is in the right place”
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CriticsEastEnders; Ladhood; The Boys from Brazil
“It was Life On Mars meets kitchen-sink drama, sensitively weaving together past and present”
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CriticsHow to With John Wilson; Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
“It is highly original and unusual, and when it finds its sweet spot, it is an empathic and lovely celebration of the characters and eccentricities that make life interesting”
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CriticsBloods; Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis; Naked Attraction; Off the Hook; House of Hammer
“Decent comfort TV if…you tune out the boring bits.”
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CriticsSend Nudes; Grand Designs
”It takes the essence of Naked Attraction – entertainment for drunk viewers who tune in to squeal at people’s rude bits – and mashes it up with Embarrassing Bodies and cosmetic surgery makeover shows.”
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CriticsThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
“This is enormously enjoyable TV, a cinematic feast.”
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CriticsDays That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby; Rosie Jones’s Trip Hazard
“Dimbleby is at his best, his unwillingness to let a stray remark go unchallenged and ability to get to the heart of the matter undiminished”
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CriticsRidley; The Capture; Suspect; Animal Airlift: Escaping the Taliban
“Dunbar is an entirely safe pair of hands and couldn’t be more perfect as the lead – grizzled, principled, a little unorthodox”
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CriticsCritics: All That Glitters
“Katherine has ditched the political jokes, and kept the innuendos to the odd barbed aside”