Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke is a writer at the Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Your Friends and Neighbours is doomed to languish unloved and unwatched

Jon Hamm’s Apple series could be a kind of cut-price update on John Updike’s Rabbit novels – if only it was braver.

By Rachel Cooke

By Rachel Cooke

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This isn’t her house. Are these people her friends? Can she really cook, or garden, or do any of…

By Rachel Cooke

This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.

By Rachel Cooke

This reboot of the classic detective series has lost all its drollness and sense of fun. C’est dommage!

By Rachel Cooke

This series, based on a real-life fraud peddling diets to cure cancer, explores how social media makes fools of…

By Rachel Cooke

Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.

By Rachel Cooke

The Motherland spin-off’s star returns diminished but undimmed.

By Rachel Cooke

Tom Gatti is joined by TV producer and editor Rob Burley, and the New Statesman’s TV critic Rachel Cooke.

James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that…

By Rachel Cooke