TV critics – Page 5
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CriticsTime Bandits; Dirty Pop; London ’48: How Britain Saved the Olympics
“Terry Gilliam will surely be pleased to see his legacy so beautifully preserved, in all its daftness and with all its wit”
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CriticsSophie Morgan’s Fight to Fly; Surviving the Post Office
“Watching Morgan, it’s almost impossible not to cheer her on from the sofa”
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CriticsPiglets; Britain Behind Bars; McDonald & Dodds
“The show has its amusing moments, but overall it is pretty weak stuff”
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CriticsThose About to Die; Lady in the Lake
“Those About to Die is no Gladiator but it does get better as it goes on”
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CriticsMr Bigstuff; Suspect
“Despite its flaws, Mr Bigstuff has the makings of something both funny and feel-good”
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CriticsDaley: Olympic Superstar; Simone Biles: Rising
“Vadim Jean’s film was both overdue and thorough”
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CriticsThe Jetty; Whitstable Pearl
“I can’t remember the last time a BBC crime series gripped me this much”
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CriticsChanging Ends; The West End Through Time; Ibiza Narcos; The Run-DMC Story
“In a bleak world, this sitcom is a small splash of silliness and joy”
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CriticsThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning; Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer; SisterS
“The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning is funny and practical”
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CriticsSausage Party: Foodtopia; Cooking Buddies; The Big Loyalty Card Rip-Off
“It has enough underlying heft to make it that bit more than simply a first-class joke factory”
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CriticsSunny; Horsepower
“The pieces are all in play for this to be a twisty and compelling drama full of humour and heart”
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CriticsThe Turkish Detective; The Night Caller; Guy Martin And The Lost WW2 Bomber
“This is a soothing fantasy of the policing system, where truth is definitive and always excavated in the end”
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CriticsElection TV; Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain
“The result, this time, was a quartet of exhausting, patience-testing but oddly moving testaments to the great exercise of democracy”
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CriticsBattle of the Bagpipes; The Man with 1000 Kids; The Footballer Fraudster
“It emphasises the effort that goes into reaching the top level of competition, with pipe majors who give it everything”
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CriticsThe Man with 1000 Kids; Inheriting the Castle; Secrets of the London Underground
“This is a gripping, disturbing documentary”
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CriticsSkint; Paddy and Molly: Show No Mersey; A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
“As a viewing experience, it was like being given a must-do-better report by a kindly, articulate economics teacher”
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CriticsA Good Girl’s Guide to Murder; Owning Manhattan; The Bear
“If you’re looking for an easy, breezy binge-worthy murder mystery, prepare to be glued to your screen”
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CriticsDouglas Is Cancelled; My Lady Jane
“It is a parable for the age that should perhaps be put in a time capsule for historians to ponder 200 years from now.”
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CriticsThe Bear; Supacell; Land of Women
“Series three’s beautiful character work feels like a chef adding top notes to an already excellent recipe”