TV critics – Page 42
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CriticsThe Language of Love; Toast of Tinseltown; PEN15
“This is a holiday romance stripped to its component parts and reassembled by TV producers”
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CriticsFour Lives; Anne; The Tourist
“Four Lives doesn’t linger on the crimes themselves, but balances the events leading up to them with the fallout”
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CriticsThe Great British Sewing Bee: Celebrity Christmas Special
‘It would take some doing to derail the Bee’
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CriticsWe Wish You a Mandy Christmas; Would I Lie To You?
‘With no agenda other than to make viewers laugh, it was cartoonishly larger-than-life and infectiously funny’
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CriticsThe Girl Before + Strictly Come Dancing; The Weakest Link; Gomorrah
“Lisa Bruhlmann cut her teeth on Killing Eve and at times you can see echoes of that series’ more kinetic approach”
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CriticsI Literally Just Told You
“Carr is a quick, funny host, on this occasion even sparing us his honking-mule laugh”
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CriticsChristmas at Castle Howard
“Basically a sales brochure for the castle’s Christmas in Narnia experience.”
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CriticsNaughty & Nice: Sex Toy Britain
“Keeps the interrogation of the public about their use of wands, rabbits, butt plugs and all the vibrant, vibrating rest of it to a minimum.”
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CriticsDavid Baddiel: Social Media, Anger and Us
“This was a thought-provoking documentary – with a quality that social media positively hates: nuance”
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CriticsWalk The Line
“There was a pre-Christmas giddiness to the whole thing that might be just what the British public fancy right now”
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CriticsAnd Just Like That
“The pointed absence of Kim Cattrall as its fourth wheel meant the funny filth quota was sadly much depleted”
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CriticsDolly: The Sheep That Changed The World + Welcome to Earth; Walking with Monica Galetti
“The film reminded us of the ethical worries about potential human cloning that fuelled TV discussion programmes at the time”
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CriticsLandscapers + Two Doors Down; Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Romantic Road Trip
“Exhilarating, eccentric and endlessly surprising – Landscapers might have left it late but it’s one of the best dramas of 2021.”
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CriticsCritics: Two Doors Down
“The scripts are sharp, with one-liners that can make me laugh out loud”
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CriticsYou Don’t Know Me + Doctor Who; Michael Crawford
“The drama is anchored by Adewunmi’s utterly believable performance as a desperate man at the mercy of events”
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CriticsCancelled + Yellowjackets; Banksy Most Wanted; The Wheel of Time
“It was an enjoyable canter through the more famous cancellations”
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CriticsOur Family and Autism + Positive; Farage: The Trump Interview; Landscapers
“I’m sure every family’s experience of autism is different; this one was honest and life-affirming”
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CriticsBritney + Who Do You Think You Are; The Big Leap
“A tone switching on a sixpence between goofy joy and a sense of dread”
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CriticsWinter Walks + The Princes and the Press; Sucession; Along For The Ride
“Amanda Owen was the perfect company for this stress-busting 30-minute ramble”