All Critics articles – Page 106
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TV Critics: Crazyhead; Him; Puppy Secrets: The First 6 Months
“Crazyhead is Buffy the Vampire Slayer but with bad language and a down-to-earth attitude to sex and romance.”
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TV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Married at First Sight; Who’s Spending Britain’s Billions?
“The episode was far less ordinary than the lightweight, primetime acting made it seem.”
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Andrew Marr’s Paperback Heroes; SAS: Who Dares Wins; Raw Recruits
“If the script really called for so many accents, they should have got Rory Bremner.”
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TV Critics: Nature’s Weirdest Events; The Apprentice; The Fall; Zapped
“This series often feels like a show you might stumble upon while flicking through the high numbers on the set-top box.”
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TV Critics: The Missing; The Aberfan Young Wives’ Club
“It is utterly gripping and intriguing, and will have you lying awake puzzling and worrying.”
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TV Critics: Divorce; National Treasure; Damned
“The show is set in a bitter upstate New York winter and every time it makes you smile your lips get chilblains.”
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TV Critics: The Victorian Slum; Reggie Yates; Morgana Robinson
“The odd moment of unintentional humour aside, it managed to provide some valuable and forceful insight.”
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TV Critics: Boy George’s 1970s; 200mph at Le Mans; Wild West; Victoria; Michael Palin Meets Jan Morris
“There have been quite a few programmes looking at the social and cultural impact of pop music – but none with such a charismatic, opinionated and downright entertaining presenter.”
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TV Critics: The Apprentice; Anne Robinson’s Britain; Marie Antoinette’s Watch
“The Apprentice remains the most grimly watchable schadenfreude in the land. Long may it stand firm.”
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TV Critics: A World Without Down’s Syndrome?; Undercover: Britain’s Abortion Extremists
“Sally Phillips was a compelling, invested presenter whose lightness of touch, honesty and palpable love for her son were the engine of this absorbing film.”
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TV Critics: Westworld; The Forgotten Children; The Yorkshire Vet
“The special effects are as expensive-looking as you might imagine, but it’s still the story that keeps you hooked.”
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TV Critics: My Kitchen Rules; Capability Brown’s Unfinished Garden; Raw Recruits; Go 8 Bit
“It’s too obviously fusion, there’s not enough flavour in the personalities of the judges, it’s too bland, too polite, too slow.”
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TV Critics: Louis Theroux; The Level; Poldark
“There is no need for Louis to be stripped of the BBC Grierson Trustees’ Award he received last week. Rather, this rigorous mea culpa of a documentary shows why he was worthy of it.”
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TV Critics: The Fall; John Bishop; Paranoid
“This was a compelling opening episode, revisiting all the major characters in brief but menacing snatches and cleverly generating tension all around.”
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TV Critics: World of Weird; Conviction; Bake Off; Our Girl
“World of Weird was like tumbling down a rabbit hole and ending up in the early Nineties.”
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TV Critics: Damned; Ambulance; National Treasure
“I could have done with more of the social work, less of the office japes and politics.”
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TV Critics: The Agency; The Retreat; Cold Feet
“She’s an outstanding impressionist and the Agency is her best show yet.”
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TV Critics: Transparent; Walking Through Time; Fleabag; Strictly; When Magic Goes Horribly Wrong
“Forget Clarkson and co, this is the reason Amazon needs to be taken seriously as more than just people who send you stuff in oversized packaging.”
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TV Critics: Hunted; Paranoid; Brexit: A Very British Coup?
“Full of gallows humour, warm camaraderie and white-knuckle tension, Hunted is well worth tracking down.”