SAS: Rogue Heroes; The White Lotus

“I thoroughly enjoyed SAS: Rogue Heroes. It is funnier than Peaky Blinders, which dragged itself into the doldrums for its final series, though this still has plenty of its predecessor’s vim. It is a bracing way to spend a Sunday evening, and, to borrow the parlance of one of its leads, a lot of fun, old boy.”
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian

 “As you’d expect from the man who brought us Peaky Blinders, the programme was uproarious, a punchy, bucking colt of a true Second World War story that grabbed the viewer (well, this one, anyway) by the lapels from the outset.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“As a romantic hymn to raw courage the whole bang-shoot is a riot. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight brings with him from gangland Birmingham a rambunctious taste for boys’ own machismo and cruel comic-strip violence, underscored by lashings of heavy metal, punk and, er, George Formby.”
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph

“The verbose affectations dragged occasionally. But we got a strong sense of the three differing personalities at the core of the tale and, with the whole series now on iPlayer, the bone-snapping cliffhanger left me eager for the next episode.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“Knight will have to go badly astray to not make something highly watchable out of such extraordinary source material. Happily, his heightened, left-field script is perfectly in sync with his subject.”
Gerard Gilbert, The i

“For people raised on a diet of Call of Duty and sub-Tarantino knock-offs, SAS Rogue Heroes will feel like a breath of fresh air. For others, it will feel like an indulgent and messy rewriting of recent(ish) history, where each sequence has a 50:50 chance of hitting a bum note. This self-conscious melange of good and bad produces, unsurprisingly, a product of variegated quality.”
Nick Hilton, The Independent

“At its best, it is brilliantly bawdy fun – brimming with zinging dialogue, physical humour and sharply drawn critiques of the super-wealthy.”
Ed Power, The Telegraph

“There are perhaps a few too many lingering shots of those portentous waves and the satirical knife might not be quite as sharp as the Hawaiian expedition but with a cast this deliciously on form, Mike White has once again produced something as heady and intoxicating as it is sour and unsettling. This is another dose of self-sabotaging lurid luxury that makes helpless, gleeful voyeurs of us all.”
Rachel Sigee, The i

“Put simply, there is nothing more enjoyable to watch on television right now than The White Lotus. Whip smart, sexy and with an artistic sentiment as relentlessly focused on audience gratification as the lowest-denominator reality TV: this is as moreish, and mouth-watering, as a big bowl of spaghetti alle vongole.”
Nick Hilton, The Independent