All Critics articles – Page 120
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CriticsTV Critics: The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop; Eat To Live Forever With Giles Coren; Three In A Bed
As with the famous chicken product, one bite sufficed for me.
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Back in Time for Dinner; Fighting the System
“If anything, Ordinary Lies is a victim of bad timing: there’s been an awful lot of duplicity on TV recently.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Raised by Wolves; Kew on a Plate; A Fair Cop; Britain’s Benefit Tenants
“Bright, brash, blinking funny and brilliantly realised”
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CriticsTV Critics: You’re Back in the Room; Nina Conti Clowning Around; Wild Things
“The whole thing is quite retro, and the quiz format adds very little.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Spicing Up Britain; Secrets of Mexico's Drug War; In and Out of the Kitchen
“So many bowls of bhuna, plates of prawn balls and buttered baguettes flashed before us that I began to feel travel sick.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Nurse; Sex, Lies, and Love Bites; Critical; One Born Every Minute
“Beautifully observed, full of pathos and sensitively performed, Nurse’s bedside manner was near-perfect.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Mystery of Murder; The Billion Pound Hotel; Arthur and George; Bluestone 42
“Instead of A Horizon Guide, they might have gone for something more honest. Gee, Isn’t Horizon Great? for example, or Horizon: It’s Been Going For Ages And Here Are All The Clips To Prove It.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Poldark; Call the Midwife; Indian Summers
“A beautifully filmed Sunday night romp with a nice bit of substance.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Banished; The Nation's Favourite 70s Number One; The Supervet
“Elements of the story verged on the sentimental. Others felt like they belonged in a Seventies Bond film”
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CriticsTV Critics: DCI Banks; Surviving Sandy Hook; India's Daughter; Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Being Bipolar
“After spending eight weeks watching Olivia Colman and David Tennant do the TV drama equivalent of cleaning the Augean stables, it was nice to watch a detective drama that made sense and was sure of itself.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Super-Powered Owls; No Place To Call Home; Bargain Fever Britain; Better Call Saul
“The film-makers had swallowed a sackful of facts, and were determined to regurgitate them.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Arthur & George; Moone Boy; The Walking Dead
“Sadly, the executives overlooked an unticked box on the line that said: ‘Make it interesting, make sure the viewers actually care what happens.’”
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CriticsTV Critics: Pompidou; The Casual Vacancy; Indian Summers
“Many of the antics reminded me of children’s TV. Apt, given I’m not sure that this show will appeal to anyone over 10.”
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CriticsTV Critics: House of Cards; Wolf Hall; Reinventing the Royals
“This is a show to be enjoyed on a sensual, as much as intellectual, level. From the creepy opening credits, to the inky shadows that seep into every shot, it plays like an ever-darkening study in amorality.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Wolf Hall; Suffragettes Forever!; The People’s Strictly for Comic Relief; The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
“For connoisseurs of character acting, every week has been like a bath in champagne.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Critical; Immigration Street; Mary Portas: Secret Shopper
“If Casualty and Holby are medical drama administered by drip, this is television defibrillation with a triple shot of adrenaline in the arm at the same time.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadchurch; Catastrophe; A Cook Abroad
“If little Bobby Beale from EastEnders had popped round to bash both the girls to death with his music box, no one could have cared less.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Songs of the South; The Big Painting Challenge; The Casual Vacancy
“Essential viewing for anyone even remotely interested in music.”
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CriticsTV Critics: EastEnders; Reinventing the Royals; Saints and Sinners
“The production was admirably ambitious, transcending soap convention.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off; Junk Food Kids: Who's To Blame?; Wolf Hall; Midsomer Murders
“This was the televisual equivalent of junk food: cheap and entirely without true nourishment. The BBC should know better.”