TV critics – Page 71
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CriticsSink Or Swim
“When Alex Brooker fights off tears and pain to complete his 500m swim and collapse into Greg Rutherford’s arms, I well up like a Cumbrian rain cloud.”
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CriticsMan vs. Wild with Bear Grylls and PM Modi
“It is hard to think of a more monstrous exemplar of our times than this Putin-style propaganda exercise.”
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CriticsDeep Water
“Has the makings of an interesting story in its own right. The cast is good and the locations are gorgeous.”
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CriticsKathy Burke’s All Woman
“The beauty industry is not an unusual topic for a documentary and it was hard for All Woman to find something unique to say.”
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CriticsThe Queen’s Lost Family
“It was a jumble of bright, weirdly dissociated details, making up only a vaguely coherent whole”
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CriticsJade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
“A fair and nuanced portrait of Goody and the machinery that surrounded her.”
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CriticsBorn Famous: Gordon Ramsay
“It wasn’t celebrity culture that got shamed here, but a society which has turned its back on vulnerable children”
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CriticsThe Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk
“To call it ‘mad’ is like calling Caligula ‘a bit nudey’. It is batshit crazy”
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CriticsPortillo: The Trouble with the Tories
“After two decades of railway journeys and appearances on This Week, Michael Portillo has finally made the television programme he was born to make”
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CriticsThe Best Little Prison in Britain
“The title jauntily evokes a fictional Texan whorehouse, which feels a tad inappropriate before we’ve even started”
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CriticsHow to Break into the Elite, BBC2
”Astute and depressing because it confirmed what I imagine many already suspected.”
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CriticsThe Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
“Romesh Ranganathan has nailed the celebrity travel documentary. No other celebs need bother trying.”