“It took a while for it to get there, but finally, the Sex and the City spin-off feels comfortable in its own skin”

And Just Like That

And Just Like That, Sky Comedy

“It took a while for it to get there, but finally, the Sex and the City spin-off feels comfortable in its own skin. If the first two seasons were fondly received but sometimes excruciating exercises in attempting to squeeze its characters into the modern age, then this feels like a loosening of the belt. The leads are no longer trying to be anything other than themselves: absurdly rich New Yorkers in their 50s, troubled mostly by the burdens of making sure they spend enough time with their friends.”
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

“As it returns for a third run, there are signs that it’s finally getting into its vertiginous-heeled stride. There is still plenty here to mock – and rest assured, we will – but there’s also just enough of the old magic to make this a nostalgic guilty pleasure.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph

“I’m six episodes in and struggling to understand if I’m missing the joke, if I’m in on the joke, or if maybe the joke is on me. It’s meant to be this boring, right? It’s meant to be this dumb? I’m meant to not be able to tell the difference between what’s terrible on purpose and what’s just terrible and that’s why it’s so clever? I think I get it. Well done to all involved.”
Tom Peck, The Times

Doctor Who, BBC1

“A patchy – and, for the franchise, potentially fatal – series meandered to its climax with an extended 70-minute episode titled ‘The Reality War’. If you could keep track of what the heck was happening, you’re a better man than I am and perhaps should apply for Russel T Davies’s position forthwith.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph

“It is, at once, frantic and inert; people in rooms speaking very, very fast to justify a plot that can essentially be boiled down to gods and magic.”
Stephen Kelly, The i

“Remember, the last time we watched the last ever episode of Doctor Who, it was 1989 and Sylvester McCoy was trying to make the best of a leaden script and leaden co-stars on a drab Perivale housing estate. This last episode was better than that last episode, but how many people made it this far? How many people gave up after the Doctor Who-does-intergalactic-Eurovision episode managed to be more camp and more boring than Eurovision itself?”
Matt Rudd, The Times

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