“Can we start obsessing about another decade please?” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

WORRIED ABOUT THE BOY, BBC2

“Despite a worthy performance in the central role by Douglas Booth, it was hard to care very much about what lay within the glad rags. The career trajectory of rejection, success and then self-destruction is overly familiar.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“It managed to give the biopic – that most stultifying of genres – a jangled, edgy energy.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“An entertaining romp about a character who encapsulated the decade.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“The Eighties grab the imagination…of the small, mostly London based clique behind all our TV programmes. Can we start obsessing about another decade please?”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

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