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Years and Years, Series Finale, BBC One review - soggy ending fails to inspireWednesday, 19 June 2019
As Russell T Davies’s doomsday odyssey reached its endgame on BBC One, feisty grandma Muriel (played by indestructible Anne Reid) got to deliver the moral of the story. With the Lyons clan gathered round that now-familiar dining table, she spelt it out for them. Read more... |
Ackley Bridge, Series 3, Channel 4 review - we gotta get out of this placeWednesday, 19 June 2019
In the Yorkshire town of Ackley Bridge, education is like war conducted by other means. As series three of the drama begins on Channel 4, we see that everything has changed at Ackley Bridge school since Valley Trust took it over... Read more... |
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution, Finale, BBC Two review - a heartbreaking account of her declineTuesday, 18 June 2019
The surprisingly touching conclusion to BBC Two’s five-part chronicle of the Thatcher years was a masterpiece of contemporary history. Read more... |
Wild Bill, Episode 1, ITV review - an American in LincolnshireWednesday, 12 June 2019
All is not well in Boston, Lincolnshire. Unemployment, immigration concerns, Brexit frustration, and the highest murder rate in the country. How do you solve the problems of contemporary Britain? Send in an American. And not just that. Read more... |
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali, Sky Atlantic review - why they called him The GreatestWednesday, 12 June 2019
As Anthony Joshua’s shock defeat by the unfancied Andy Ruiz Jr suggests, heavyweight boxers ain’t what they used to be. Read more... |
Years and Years, Episode 5, BBC One review - darker and darkerWednesday, 12 June 2019
Does every generation suffer its own form of doomsday paranoia? In Stephen Poliakoff’s BBC Two drama Summer of Rockets, it’s the late 1950s and everybody’s convinced they’re about to perish in a nuclear holocaust. Read more... |
Big Little Lies, Series 2, Sky Atlantic review - supercharged start for new seasonTuesday, 11 June 2019
When the first series of Sky Atlantic's Big Little Lies paraded across our screens in 2017, its shocking but satisfying ending looked like the perfect conclusion to a superb self-contained drama. Doh! Of course it wasn’t – it was just the first season out of who knows how many. Read more... |
Bob Dylan Special - Rolling Thunder Revue, NetflixTuesday, 11 June 2019
Tomorrow, Martin Scorsese delivers, via Netflix, two hours and 22 minutes of screen time devoted to Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, following on from the release last week of the latest Bootleg Series boxed set, 14... Read more... |
Killing Eve, Series 2, BBC One review - the award-winning show returnsSunday, 09 June 2019
At the end of the first series, MI6 spy Eve (Sandra Oh) stabs psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) in the stomach as they’re together on the bed in Villanelle’s gorgeous Paris flat ("chic as shit" according to Eve). “I really liked you! It hurts!” cries Villanelle. Series two doesn't mess about. It starts 30 seconds later, as Eve rushes down the spiral staircase, gasping, distraught, carrying a bloody knife. Read more... |
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, Netflix, review - sex and dope soap is back in San FranciscoFriday, 07 June 2019
It helps to be of a certain vintage to appreciate the first impact of Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin’s column, begun in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1978 as a frank and joyous portrayal of gay culture, became a series of half a dozen cult novels. These started appearing in the UK from the mid-1980s. Read more... |
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