Severance and the paradoxes of grief
Cold Harbor is another entry in the canon of television which use fantastical ideas to convey the scale and the…
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The White Lotus’s banal class war
The show, written from a liberal’s imagination, is a paltry social critique.
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This City Is Ours: a highly superior Scouse Dallas
This series, starring Sean Bean, is the perfect combination of menace and farce. And the accents, the clothes, the caterpillar…
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Severance knows the self is an illusion
We are obsessed by the idea of our authentic selves, free from the burdens of context or history. What if…
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Who let the BBC inside Thames Water?
The water company has made a calamitous mistake in letting TV cameras capture its day-to-day operations.
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Jack Thorne’s Adolescence is how crime drama should be done
This Netflix series is a veritable pageant of sophisticated anxiety and dread.
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Towards Zero: a hot mess of wonky accents and dubious furs
This vaguely dirty take on Agatha Christie isn’t shocking – at times, it’s laughable and a bit gross.
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The half-hearted return of Bergerac
This reboot of the classic detective series has lost all its drollness and sense of fun. C’est dommage!
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Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar is a queasy look at the wellness industry
This series, based on a real-life fraud peddling diets to cure cancer, explores how social media makes fools of us…
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The White Lotus is as good and twisted as ever
Thanks to our sharp-eyed puppetmaster Mike White, this third series is an intensely satisfying slow burn.
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Long live Amandaland!
The Motherland spin-off’s star returns diminished but undimmed.
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Prime Target: a show so preposterous it’s almost addictive
This Apple TV+ thriller is derivative and extremely silly. And yet no producer seemed to think: is this too much?
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Why Severance is the series for our times
The second season of Dan Erickson’s drama is just as bewildering and magnificent as the first.
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Playing Nice is good, clean, twisted fun
This series is yet more messy human drama set in an immaculate, expensive interiors; a superior cast in ridiculous material.
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I love the Traitors – but hate its cliffhanger endings
The show’s teasing, abrupt credit rolls just make me feel cheated. In the age of streaming, the TV cliffhanger should…
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The comforts and joys of Gavin & Stacey
This final (or is it?) Christmas special episode of the sitcom suggests that our world may not be as awful…
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The 10 best TV shows of 2024
Our choice of the year’s essential small-screen entertainment.
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Netflix’s Black Doves is as irresistible as it is annoying
This festive spy thriller is farcical and freewheeling –and like a decent cracker it packs a certain bang.
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The torture of Meet the Rees-Moggs
The last thing Jacob Rees-Mogg needs is to be coddled by reality TV.
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Forty years ago, Band Aid brought mad excitement to my generation
Watching the BBC’s The Making of Do They Know It’s Christmas?, what was once such a big deal dematerialised in…
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