All Critics articles – Page 113
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CriticsTV Critics: Let Us Entertain You; My Psychic Life; Elvis and Me
“It flattered our intelligence while satisfying a national fondness for jingoism and nostalgia”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Pottery Throw Down; The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds; Catastrophe
“It’s primeval, primordial even, visceral, sensual. I could watch pot throwing all day… Well, some of the day, certainly.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Simply Nigella; Is This Rape? Sex On Trial; Hugh's War on Waste
“Oh, Nigella, you can do so many things – except stop yourself from being so infinitely spoofable.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Dresser; The Hunt
“Someone should find another vehicle for these two, and quickly, because they made for one of the best television pairings I have ever seen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Detectorists; Class of 92: Out of Their League; Kitchen Impossible; Rent a Cop
“Not a life-changing find maybe, but a comedy trinket that deserves to be discovered.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Cuffs; The Affair
“This is wham-bam, oi, you’re nicked, bright and breezy, just like its location”
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CriticsTV Critics: Catastrophe; Professor Green: Suicide and Me; Imagine: Shylock's Ghost
“Fearless comedy, full of black farce and unflinching observation”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Last Dukes; Scream Queens; Doc Martin
“A human zoo, basically, but you don’t have to feel too guilty about laughing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Jekyll & Hyde; The Sex Change Spitfire Ace; Great Canal Journeys
“Like Jekyll’s lawyer I never use an exclamation unless absolutely necessary but…damn fine bogey tale!”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Last Kingdom; My Son the Jihadi; Escape To The Wild
“It’s not just an attempt at a Game of British Thrones, on a smaller scale, with a little less sex.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Bull; The Apprentice; The Face of Britain by Simon Schama
“The trouble is that it’s uneven, feels forced and will be far too cartoony for many palates. Especially too cartoony for a 10pm weeknight slot.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours in A&E; The River; How Gay is Pakistan?
“There’s no silly hysterical wailing, it’s stoical, particularly (posh) British, but somehow also very tender and very moving.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Fargo; The Muppets; The Walking Dead
“It’s bloody, bloody funny, and I can’t bloody wait for more.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Downton Abbey; Homeland; Earth’s Wildest Waters; Treasures of the Jade Empire
“An episode that had all the finesse of a pig in a tutu.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Unforgotten; The Apprentice; Harvest 2015; Mr Robot
“This was slack drama, and with such a cast that’s a travesty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice; Land of the Midnight Sun; Restoring Britain's Landmarks
“As fresh as a box of poor-quality calamari that has been left in the sun all day.”
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CriticsTV Critics: River; Brett: Life with No Arms; Girls to Men
“The most moving thing I’ve seen on television for some time.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Walking Dead; Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers; Rhyme, Rock and Revolution
“Just how long can you be chased by zombies for before it all starts to get a bit boring?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Homeland; Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success; Black Roses: the Killing of Sophie Lancaster
“This was Homeland back at its absolute best.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Unforgotten; A Very British Romance; Extreme Railway Journeys
“Extremely good storytelling; carefully-paced, beautifully acted.”