TV critics – Page 90
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CriticsStrike: Career of Evil; Top Gear
“Manages to be modern yet old-fashioned, discomfiting yet cosy, absurd yet plausible. If you ask me we’ve found our next great TV detective”
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CriticsYoung Sheldon
“It’s all as sentimental as country music, and a reminder that there’s nothing quite as insufferable as an American TV child”
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CriticsMurdered for Love? Samia Shahid
“This was certainly TV with a sense of consequence and purpose”
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CriticsMum, Here and Now, Working with Weinstein
“The humour is in the way the characters love each other, even when they’re being most hurtful”
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CriticsTroy: Fall of a City
“Those hoping to see some death and decapitation may have to hold onto their Trojan horses for a while longer.”
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CriticsThe Job Interview
“Essentially a positive show and thus a pale imitation of the dream-crushing, soul-destroying, oft-humiliating reality”
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CriticsTrauma; Collateral
“Mike Bartlett, with his theatre background, knows how to hit that sweet spot between the viewer on their sofa and the back row of the stalls”
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CriticsJames Bulger: A Mother’s Story
“The account of James’s death has lost none of its power to disturb.”
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CriticsMy Millionaire Migrant Boss
“This surprisingly touching programme was billed as a one-off but felt like a pilot for a potential full series.”
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CriticsFlatpack Empire
“A touch more interesting than you would expect from a profile of a furniture chain”
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CriticsThe X-Files
“This was truly out-there television, redeemed only by how seriously Anderson and Duchovny were determined to take it”
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CriticsWonders of the Moon
“On this evidence the moon, and everything about it, still retains an extraordinary power to fascinate.”
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CriticsCan You Rebuild My Brain?
“I’m not sure you could have asked for a more appealing guide than the smiling, perpetually astonished Lotje Sodderland”