The BBC’s younger, sharper Rebus
This new adaptation – the bastard child of early Taggart and Happy Valley – reimagines Ian Rankin’s detective.
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The conservative fantasies of Bridgerton
The Netflix series promised to radicalise romance. Instead, it delights in old-fashioned patriarchy and class systems.
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Bodkin is a very 21st-century media satire
The journalism jokes are the highlight of this comedy thriller, which pokes fun at the clichés of true crime podcasting.
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Inside the mind of Kevin Spacey
Beyond the allegations, Channel 4’s Spacey Unmasked is a brave attempt to explain the actor’s apparent self-loathing.
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Disney’s Shardlake series is tediously anachronistic
Organic produce, everyday sexism, and cartoonish monks: I can’t take anything in this mist-shrouded adaptation seriously.
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What went wrong with The Regime?
In HBO’s political satire, every line sinks like a stone, and every episode lasts for a year.
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We are all Tom Ripley
In our culture of fraud and corruption, Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero is just another con man.
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The luxe vapidity of Palm Royale
Allison Janney is at her best in this glitzy series about feminism and Sixties Florida. But it should be much…
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The Jury: Murder Trial and the misogyny of the British public
This disquieting Channel 4 series reveals the shocking way some men still talk about women.
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Michael Sheen’s The Way is audacious, intellectual TV
This collaboration between James Graham, Adam Curtis and the actor asks big questions, and has things to tell us about…
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Netflix’s One Day is a romcom without any chemistry
With its bland universality in place of electricity or charm, this adaptation feels unconvincing and embarrassing.
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The human failings of the miners’ strike
Tom Barrow’s film, which marks 40 years since the strike, is as richly mournful as a good funeral – until…
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Masters of the Air fails the Greatest Generation
Spielberg and Hanks’ companion piece to Band of Brothers is visually awesome but lacks humour and heart.
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Is The Traitors really “ethical reality TV”?
All reality TV is just fun and games – until it isn’t.
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Nicole Kidman is a doll-like absence in Expats
This Amazon series appears to have been written by a visitor from outer space. Who could care for these cold,…
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What on earth is LOL: Last One Laughing?
This game show, in which some comedians are stuck in a room together for six hours, seems to me to…
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How Mr Bates vs The Post Office sparked a nationwide outcry
This is a rare example of a piece of drama not just capturing, but creating, a national moment.
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Why is The Traitors so addictive?
It’s just a game, and yet this elaborate wink murder is full of betrayal, revelation and bitchiness. It is so…
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The Christmas gift of Viagra
I’ve always felt the word festive may be applied as easily to the bedroom as to bunting. Men Up proves…
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The 20 best films and TV shows of 2023
Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
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