Pam + Tommy reminds me of porn: it’s boring, lifeless and full of erect nipples
Yes, this Disney+ series features a huge, animatronic penis. But why was it made? What’s it for?
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Why The Great Pottery Throw Down is the loveliest show on TV
I never thought I would cry at pots. But this series movingly communicates the value a creative hobby can bring…
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The Succession finale was monstrous, near-Shakespearean perfection
Jesse Armstrong effected the most remarkable reversal of fortune of all, Logan now in the ascendant over his fractious, ingrate…
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Amazon Prime fantasy series The Wheel of Time is a colossal waste of time and money
Can this derivative series really have cost $10m an episode to make? I went into a kind of death spiral…
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The return of Succession
What does Jesse Armstrong want for his monsters now?
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Strictly Come Dancing is the most reliable talent show on TV
A careful balance of well-loved routine and quiet reinvention means BBC One’s flagship talent show remains one of the few…
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A new docuseries captures 9/11 minute by minute
9/11: One Day in America forces the viewer to experience the attacks in painful detail.
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BBC drama The North Water is bloody and brutal
Ice-cold and uncompromising, this series is grim enough to go out after the 9pm watershed.
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The White Lotus is Agatha Christie with tiki torches and Xanax – and I loved it
This weird, funny drama about a luxury hotel in Hawaii understands the rich and powerful are often uneasy in their…
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From Sex/Life to 365 Days: The rise of TV soft porn
Why we should celebrate the ascent of popular erotica.
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Ted Lasso is the most overrated show on TV
Despite its tired jokes, absurd plots and dramatic clichés, Ted Lasso is universally acclaimed. Am I missing something?
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ITV’s Professor T is a lockdown nightmare gone wrong
Ben Miller stars as an unnervingly observant Cambridge don with OCD called Jasper Tempest. It’s all incredibly strange.
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Will this be the most feral Love Island yet?
For years, we have lamented Love Island as commercialised and insincere. But after the past 15 months, who actually cares?
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Robert Popper: How we made Friday Night Dinner
The writer of Friday Night Dinner reflects on the tenth anniversary of Channel 4’s longest-running sitcom.
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I thought I was over the naïve Nineties optimism of Friends. The reunion proved me wrong
Friends may appear an apolitical relic, but like many millenials I can’t be objective about a programme that raised me.
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BBC Four’s Delia Derbyshire doc is a triumphant portrait of a brilliant woman
How to bring to life such a woman, and how on earth to put her experiments in psychoacoustics on screen?
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Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death suggests fame is a slow-working poison
Public approbation cannot, unlike a lover, be snared or pinned down. It is unreliable, fickle. It is a chimera.
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BBC One’s Bloodlands is Line of Duty with added politics
This new series produced by Jed Mercurio is exciting, and its plot is intricately tangled.
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Elton John: Uncensored: a strange case of openness without candour
If Graham Norton’s questions were far from searching, John’s answers were accompanied by neither feeling nor reflection.
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Euphoria offers a much-needed, fresh perspective on mental health problems in teenage girls
For 22 hours Rue has been entombed in her duvet watching Love Island. Time slips into nothingness, but Ian Stirling’s…
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