“In short, it’s a winner. Your new escapist watch is here.”
Billion Dollar Playground, BBC3
“Billion Dollar Playground has arrived and it is a feast for all. Imagine that The White Lotus’s characters were real, but worse, and that none of them – increasingly unbelievably – ended up murdered. In short, it’s a winner. Your new escapist watch is here.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“Not a moment of this feels authentic. But if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief you can at least savour the realisation that being rich and working with the rich isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
The Body in Room 203, 5
“A distastefully superficial rehashing of a harrowing crime, the show offers no meaningful insight into its central murder. Rather, it whips through the particulars of the crime, pausing only to relish its most salacious details, before delivering a trite conclusion.”
Emily Watkins, The i
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