Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans rights.
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The Meghan and Harry documentary isn’t really about Meghan Markle at all
For all she dominates, this isn’t a story about the duchess. It’s much bigger than that.
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The dramas exposing the horror of restaurant kitchens
Boiling Point, The Bear and The Menu find their tension in the gruelling, claustrophobic world of fine dining.
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Meghan’s Netflix documentary is made for Americans like me, not British people
It gets to the heart of transatlantic cultural differences over openness, class and racism.
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Netflix’s Harry & Meghan can’t disguise how much of this story doesn’t add up
The show is a Seventies Timotei ad meets The Crown with some light top notes of the Ladybird book of…
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Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a completely pointless adaptation
This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.
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What Charles and Camilla’s dirty phone call taught us about the English language
In The Crown’s reimagining of the intimate exchange, the future King’s longing for linguistic purism caught my ear.
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Abolish true crime
The marketing for Netflix’s Jeffrey Dahmer series proves it: the genre is morally indefensible.
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Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 overlooks the festival’s most disturbing problem – sexual assault
This Netflix documentary treats violence against women as an afterthought and mythologises a toxic environment.
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Diversity is part of the very soul of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
The author wanted to “change hearts and minds” with his bestselling graphic novel. The Netflix adaption stays true to that…
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In defence of Netflix’s Persuasion
No, I haven’t read Jane Austen’s novel. Must that disqualify me from enjoying this joyful and self-aware parody?
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Netflix’s The Gray Man is a dire example of movie-making by algorithm
The service’s most expensive film yet is blatantly tailored to suit streaming viewers’ boredom, impatience and desire for familiar faces.
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The last of the folk-hero hijackers
A crime mystery that fascinated 1970s America gets a new set of wings in the Netflix series DB Cooper: Where…
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How did Netflix’s Persuasion get the novel so wrong?
This adaptation slaps a sassy millennial tone on Austen’s most mature work, in an embarrassing attempt to force the brashest…
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Rowan Atkinson’s Man vs Bee: the most perplexing minutes I have ever spent watching TV
Therein lies the entire series: a man, vs a bee. And although it may seem impossible, there are nine episodes.
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Please, no more adaptations of Jane Austen
Do we really need the new Netflix version of Persuasion, which has seemingly confused Anne Elliot with Fleabag?
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Why a “digital-first” BBC should worry us all
As it closes the CBBC and BBC Four channels, the broadcaster appears to be accepting a smaller role in public…
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Hannah Gadsby’s Q&A: “My hero? There’s a tree in my yard that I’m quite fond of”
The comedian discusses having autism, long-haul flights and dealing with internet trolls.
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In an age of streaming and endless choice, I cling to my DVD collection
Who needs Netflix when you have the holy trinity of This Life, Bodies and Prime Suspect in literal boxset form?
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Netflix’s Jeen-Yuhs shows two sides of Kanye West
Two intimate, vulnerable instalments focus on the rapper's early years, but the final episode struggles to surmise his most controversial…
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