The cheap, soapy tricks of BBC One’s Life
Mike Bartlett's new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Mike Bartlett's new series is both mystifyingly bad and bewilderingly addictive.
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