TV critics – Page 44
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CriticsShowtrial + Doctor Who
“It is a brave TV drama that makes its lead character utterly obnoxious”
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CriticsPompeii: Secrets of the Dead + Handmade; Colin in Black & White
“For a story so often told it felt fresh and, for that reason, all the more wretched”
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CriticsThe Outlaws
“This schtick can work, but it needs a lot of charm to compensate for the absence of glamour.”
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CriticsJoe Lycett vs the Oil Giant
“Lycett was an excellent anchor – affable, accessible and with enough quips to keep us interested.”
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CriticsAll Creatures Great and Small
“It’s a salutary lesson in how to adapt much-loved literary properties and produce crowd-pleasing TV period drama”
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CriticsFour Hours at the Capitol
“There was a much-needed sense of the true human impact of what happened”
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CriticsImpeachment American Crime Story
“It’s a rich, soapy lather shot through with comedy and an irresistible wholeheartedness”
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CriticsThe Trick + Hornby: A Model World; Yorkshire Cop: Police, Racism And Me
“Really, it’s a tale of one man taking far too long to explain himself”
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CriticsCelebrity Trash Monsters + Succession, Eye for Eye, Angela Black, The Larkins
“As a wake-up call, it was like a bucket of water to the face.”
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CriticsGuilt + You; Will.i.am: The Blackprint; Complaints Welcome
“The pleasure of Guilt is its wicked humour, as bitter and moreish as dark chocolate”
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CriticsHunting the Essex Lorry Killers + Reservation Dogs; Hollington Drive
“A chilling account of the atrocity and subsequent police investigation”
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are? + Guilt; Question Team; GBBO
“Episodes like this prove genealogy – even someone else’s – is still fertile ground for TV”
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CriticsPaul Merson: Football, Gambling & Me + Scenes from a Marriage; Hornby: A Model World; Blair & Brown
“It was an educational but depressing hour”
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CriticsAngela Black; Tom Parker: Inside My Head; The Larkins
“Hardly a frame is left untouched by the cold hand of cliché”
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CriticsSavile: Portrait Of A Predator; Hunting the Football Trolls; Acapulco; All Creatures Great and Small
“It was a thoughtful reminder of a timeless lesson”
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CriticsHollington Drive; Catching a Predator; The Love Triangle; Brassic
“This gripping psychological drama is simply unmissable”
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CriticsMurder Island; Dementia & Us; Succession
”The concept is decent and with a few tweaks could work.”
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CriticsCritics: Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution; Eggheads
“As a recap it was as fascinating as it was elegantly packaged, frequently telling big stories via small, revealing moments”