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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Gavin & Stacey, the sitcom New Labour built
The show, which returns this Christmas, is the platonic ideal of life under Gordon Brown: heaven as a place where…
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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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The internet has ruined true stories
In the social media age, autobiographical works invariably end in harassment for the individuals depicted. Can real-life storytelling ever be…
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ITV’s preposterous Red Eye is a bargain-basement Snakes on a Plane
This jumbo-jet thriller has a just-add-boiling-water feel, as though made from the dried remains of other dramas.
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