Mary & George is improbable, overblown and really quite rude
Despite its melodrama and cliches, this series about sex in the royal bedchamber is just a little bit mesmerising.
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Michael Sheen: Why Kemi Badenoch is wrong about Port Talbot
The actor on arguing with the Tory MP, going on stage in pyjamas, and his new series The Way.
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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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How Breathtaking brought tears to the Baftas
Also this week: In awe of maverick nurses, and why swearing should be prescribed on the NHS.
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I was excited about The New Look – but the series is cringe inducing
This Apple TV+ drama following Christian Dior during the rise of the Nazis is full of poor dialogue and every…
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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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