TV critics – Page 79

  • True Detective
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    True Detective

    2019-01-15T10:18:00Z

    “Atmospheric and beguiling, True Detective had its hooks into me again”

  • Call The Midwife
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    Call the Midwife

    2019-01-14T10:00:00Z

    “I counted a mere 13 minutes before the first bleat of a freshly delivered infant was heard and a soppy grin spread across my face”

  • Flirty Dancing
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    Flirty Dancing

    2019-01-11T09:43:00Z

    “By some sort of New Year miracle, it defied all expectations to be enchanting and really rather lovely.”

  • Cleaning Up
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    Cleaning Up

    2019-01-10T10:02:00Z

    “There is not quite enough story but, overall, this is the kind of solid, well-made nonsense that is such a rare and precious joy.”

  • Catastrophe
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    Catastrophe

    2019-01-09T09:56:00Z

    “It is as warmly vicious, and viciously warm, as it has always been, and its acid tone cuts through with as much originality as it did in 2015”

  • Brexit: The Uncivil War
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    Brexit: The Uncivil War

    2019-01-08T09:51:00Z

    “Somewhere along the line James Graham seems to have succumbed to the dramatist’s temptation of falling in love with his subject.”

  • Manhunt
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    Manhunt

    2019-01-07T10:18:00Z

    “At its best moments this was another ITV crime drama of the highest order”

  • Back in Time For School
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    Back in Time for School

    2019-01-04T09:50:00Z

    “The sheer likeability of the participants made for an engaging pop-historical romp”

  • The Twinstitute
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    The Twinstitute

    2019-01-03T09:33:00Z

    “This felt a fun and simple way to assess some nature or nurture questions”

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    Luther

    2019-01-02T10:10:00Z

    “This was a breathless opener where the next action sequence was never more than a few minutes away”

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    The ‘Christmas’ Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

    2018-12-21T09:52:00Z

    “Full of stunning snowscapes and copious swearing, this was an enlightening, amusing jaunt”

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    World Cup: Summer Of Love

    2018-12-20T10:08:00Z

    “It was stirring to hear once again the sage words of manager Gareth Southgate”

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    The Long Song

    2018-12-19T09:55:00Z

    “A beautiful, moving, horrifying adaptation of her unsimple tale, that honours the source and its subject”

  • Apprentice Final
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    The Apprentice Final

    2018-12-17T10:16:00Z

    ”A ho-hum ending to a ho-hum season of one of reality TV’s dinosaurs.”

  • Billy Connolly's Ultimate World Tour
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    ​Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour

    2018-12-14T09:49:00Z

    “There was a strangely valedictory feel, as if that ’ultimate’ was being used in its older, purer, sense of ‘last’.”

  • Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds At Christmas
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    Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds at Christmas

    2018-12-13T10:02:00Z

    “The perfect balance between sentiment and straight talking was achieved”

  • Mrs Wilson
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    Mrs Wilson

    2018-12-12T09:51:00Z

    “In fictionalising so much of his life, Alec Wilson unwittingly provided the world with his most compelling story of all”

  • Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and Private
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    Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and Private

    2018-12-11T10:03:00Z

    “Some subtle questions about our relationship with celebrity, while only scratching the surface of the complicated man at its core.”

  • Care
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    Care

    2018-12-10T09:54:00Z

    “Far from feelgood pre-Christmas entertainment, but it was a moving and heartfelt story”

  • Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess
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    Escape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess

    2018-12-07T09:34:00Z

    “A story so astonishing that at times even its participants are forced to admit that events sound far-fetched.”