TV critics – Page 22
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CriticsFootball Dreams: The Academy; Cosmic Love; Five Days at Memorial; Ambulance
“The episode’s most unexpected achievement? It (almost) made you want to become a Crystal Palace fan.”
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CriticsShetland; Celebrity MasterChef
“Subtle, unshowy but hauntingly powerful and highly atmospheric.”
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CriticsTom Daley: Illegal to Be Me; Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst?; Secrets Of The Spies
”Daley is the headline act, the gateway to a difficult and often harrowing documentary that shines a light on other people’s stories.”
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CriticsGood Grief; I Just Killed My Dad
“Coles offered well-observed, sometimes funny nuggets of wisdom throughout.”
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CriticsVan der Valk; India 1947: Partition in Colour; The Real Windsors: Queen of Steel
“Marc Warren has great presence as the sexily inscrutable Van der Valk”
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CriticsCode 404; The Sandman; Arsenal: All or Nothing
“The premise is great, a comedy skit on RoboCop, and it’s got a cracking cast”
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CriticsThe South Bank Show; The Great; Trainwreck: Woodstock 99; Code 404
“Acosta was a good talker, a generous interviewee who gave proper answers, which meant that Bragg needed to do little prompting”
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CriticsVicky Pattison: Alcohol, Dad and Me; Irma Vep
“Pattison is an absolute gift of a presenter: commanding, charismatic, beadily intelligent, unfailingly honest and unflaggingly articulate”
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CriticsInside the Factory XL: Trains; La Brea; Susan Calman’s Grand Week By The Sea
“Wallace’s manic enthusiasm is the hallmark of Inside the Factory”
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CriticsWar and Justice: The Case of Marine A; Neighbours
”It carefully examined the case of Sgt Alexander Blackman and allowed viewers to make up their own minds”
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CriticsThe Resort; The Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony; Lancaster; Big Oil v The World
“The show is aiming for an eccentric, Big Lebowski energy that it can’t quite achieve, but at least it has a good go”
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CriticsThe Great; The South Bank Show; Keep Breathing
“It’s certainly more fun than the turgid series from a few years back starring Helen Mirren”
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CriticsCritics: Under the Banner of Heaven
“It’s unflinching in its brutal interrogation of the religion”
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CriticsHelp! We Bought a Village; Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution; River
“Combining house-hunting with escapism, this was textbook daytime fluff”
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CriticsThe Newsreader; Murder In Provence; Million Pound Motorhomes
“The show is excellent at capturing the weird, restrained elation that a large-scale tragedy can bring to a newsroom”
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CriticsBig Oil v the World; Who Stole Tamara Ecclestone’s Diamonds?; The Thing About Pam; Bangers And Cash
”The documentary was compiled meticulously, exhaustively and without gimmicky dramatics”
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CriticsCritics: Maryland
“A blisteringly eloquent roar, a fluent polemic proving that some of the best things are written quickly”
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CriticsBritain’s Tourette’s Mystery; Darcey Bussell’s Royal Road Trip; Mountain Vets; A Year in Bloom
“Moffatt has a gift for inserting herself into potentially challenging scenarios without coming across as prying or prurient”
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CriticsWitness Number 3; Super Surgeons: Long Lost Family Special
“Captures and distils the atmosphere of constant fear pervading the country”
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CriticsThe Control Room; Murder in Provence; Better Things
“The three-part serial is thick with nightmarish atmosphere.”