This City is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the caterpillar…
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Severance knows the self is an illusion
We are obsessed by the idea of our authentic selves, free from the burdens of context or history. What if…
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is how crime drama should be done
This Netflix series is a veritable pageant of sophisticated anxiety and dread.
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Severance is laughing at you
Ben Stiller’s Apple series sneers at office drones like you and me.
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The Leopard and the ruins of history
Newly adapted by Netflix, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel is a lesson in the anarchic motions of our times.
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The fakery of Meghan Markle’s Netflix show
This isn’t her house. Are these people her friends? Can she really cook, or garden, or do any of the…
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Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs
This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.
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