All Critics articles – Page 125
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CriticsTV Critics: Grantchester; How Rich Are You?; Toast of London
“This was an admirable unflinchingness in a programme that I first feared might be little more than a soft-focus soap.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Downton Abbey; Doctor Who; The Mekong River
“Bloody hell, after a super-tiresome series in which almost nothing happened, suddenly everything happens.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Story; The Passing Bells; Detectorists
“Amid the inventiveness and the soft, grandfatherly tones of David Attenborough, it’s hard to ignore how selfish a business survival is.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Broadmoor; Great Continental Railway Journeys; Secrets of the Universe
“This first-ever visit by TV cameras provided more than a voyeuristic peek behind the perimeter walls; it gave an insight into some of the troubled minds confined within.”
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CriticsTV Critics: MasterChef: The Professionals 2014; The Missing
“You can have Michelin stars coming out of your arse, but that doesn’t necessarily make you a TV star.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Toast of London; Make Leicester British
“If you don’t find Toast of London’s idiosyncratic pronunciations and Clem Fandango mentions hilarious to the point of hernia, there’s simply no hope.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Doctor Who; Frankenstein and the Vampyre; Downton Abbey
“For the night after Halloween, this was bone-rattling and suitably spooky fare.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 24 Hours in A&E; Life Story; The Great Fire
“A wonderful series that allows everyone and everything time to breathe.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Spider House; The Apprentice; How To Get Away With Murder
“This close-up look at spider behaviour was deeply disturbing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Missing; Life is Toff
“This missing-boy drama was distressing enough to induce a symphathy panic attack.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Intruders; Gotham; Marylin Monroe: The Missing Evidence
“I know that sci-fi is meant to be baffling, but this one baffled far too often.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tutankhamun; Afghanistan; Rome
“These revelations felt intrusive and unnecessary. Can we not let sleeping mummies lie?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Story; Peaky Blinders; The Great Fire
“What fabulous, amazing television. We should count ourselves very lucky to be able to see it.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Grayson Perry: Who Are You?; How to Get Away with Murder; The Apprentice
“With every passing minute of Grayson Perry: Who Are You? it became clearer who Grayson Perry was: simply the most intelligent artist working in Britain today.”
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CriticsTV Critics: You Can’t Get the Staff; Children in Need - Sewing Bee; American Horror Story
“It zoomed in unnecessarily on the odd rolled eye and ghastly comment when there were far more interesting things going on, far more interesting people revealing their unique lives.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Gotham; The Walking Dead; Big Dreams, Small Spaces; The Art of Gothic
“Gotham continues to be an ace hoot. It really shouldn’t be, as it’s much the most violent thing on the small screen.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit; Downton Abbey; Not Going Out
“This was an evocative seat at the tyrant’s bedside.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great Fire; The Knick; Detectorists
“The opener was surprisingly limp, until the fire itself showed up.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Curing Cancer; Trust Me, I’m a Doctor; The Apprentice
“This gentle film was like sunlight itself.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Apprentice, Spandau Ballet: True Gold
“Every year, it pulls me back in with its addictive alchemy: brilliantly cast, beautifully edited and cleverly compelling.”