TV critics – Page 23
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CriticsThe Control Room; Murder in Provence; Better Things
“The three-part serial is thick with nightmarish atmosphere.”
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CriticsSuper Telescope: Mission to the Edge of the Universe; James May: Our Man In Italy; Our Great Yorkshire Life
“The programme showed similar restraint to the scientists, not getting carried away with gimmicks and melodramatic background music”
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CriticsThe Real Mo Farah; Camilla’s Country Life; Sneakerhead
“You get quite bruised from this hour of jaw-dropping television”
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CriticsBetter Call Saul; Resident Evil; Night Coppers
“One of the most riveting – and bleakest – dramas of the streaming age”
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CriticsAckley Bridge; The Invisible Pilot; Resident Evil
“All the grit that made the show great has been replaced by pure soap”
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CriticsPaul Hollywood Eats Mexico; The Girl from Plainville; Trom
“The show was a fun snapshot of Mexico City”
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CriticsThe Baby; Black Bird; Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster; The Undeclared War
“The idea that a cute, gurgling baby could be a malevolent force isn’t wholly original, but it was executed with wit and style”
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CriticsGeorge Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations; 999: Critical Condition; The Baby; Girl in the Picture
“The bit we’re really waiting for is the big reveal. And the result was fabulous”
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CriticsGhislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster; Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
“The three-part series delivers a gripping profile of Maxwell without slipping into grubby prurience”
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CriticsThe Extraordinary Life of April Ashley; Big Zuu’s Big Eats; 24 Hours in Police Custody
“Here was a film which humanised the experience of feeling that you were born in the wrong body”
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CriticsFreedom: 50 Years of Pride; My Life As a Rolling Stone; McDonald & Dodds
“This was precisely the sort of bold but accessible, distinctly British programming that Channel 4 should be making”
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CriticsThe Undeclared War; The Terminal List; Stranger Things
“Broad in scope and rarely letting go of its in-built tension, The Undeclared War feels like a fresh take on political drama”
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CriticsAtlanta; Endangered; Lenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain; The Great British Sewing Bee
“Atlanta is the Great American Novel trapped inside a flatscreen TV”
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CriticsOnly Murders in the Building; Sherwood; Ellie & Natasia; Everything I Know About Love
“Not since the great Moonlighting of the 1980s has a TV comedy been so joyously, goofily self-aware”
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CriticsAids: The Unheard Tapes; Sherwood; Westworld
“The actors were so good and the words so quietly, tragically mesmerising that I forgot within about two minutes that this was a performance”
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CriticsKelly Holmes; Murder in the Alps; Eddie Hall; Lost Treasures Of Rome
“It is precise and convincing, addressing the many responses that the public may have when a famous person comes out of the closet”
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CriticsMan vs Bee; Taskmaster; Who Do You Think You Are?; Loot
“Rowan Atkinson has lost none of his skill and you will watch it quite happily, but it just lacks the genius of Mr Bean”
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CriticsLenny Henry’s Caribbean Britain; Amol Rajan Interviews Billie Jean King; The Offer
“This was a deep dive into the pivotal role played by the Caribbean community in British cultural life in all its dizzying facets”
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CriticsEllie and Natasia; Whistleblowers: Inside the UN; Snowflake Mountain
“Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s comedy series marks the revival of the sketch show but also the arrival in earnest of a formidable new double act”
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CriticsBack in Time for Birmingham; How to Hire a Hitman
“The Sharmas’ likeability helped to make this an enjoyable watch”