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The Long Song, BBC One, series finale review - a stirring adaptationFriday, 21 December 2018
There was a ruthless logic to the scheduling of The Long Song (BBC One). Read more... |
Springsteen on Broadway, Netflix review - one-man band becomes one-man showSaturday, 15 December 2018
When Bruce Springsteen’s one-man show opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre on New York’s West 48th Street in October last year it was only supposed to run for six weeks. Read more... |
The Good Place, E4 review - episode one trails clouds of gloryFriday, 14 December 2018
Welcome to your first day in the afterlife! Everything is fine! Eleanor Shellstrop (a sparkling Kristen Bell) is dead, but hey, that’s cool, because she’s made it into the Good Place. Michael (the divine Ted Danson) is architect of this brightly coloured afterlife with its abnormally high ratio of frozen yoghurt parlours. “People love frozen yoghurt. I don’t know what to tell you,” sighs Michael. Read more... |
Mrs Wilson finale, BBC One review - stranger than fictionWednesday, 12 December 2018
As the priest said, "Understanding comes first, then forgiveness". Thus the rather enjoyable (if slightly overstretched) Mrs Wilson came to a not exactly happy, but certainly forgiving, ending. Ruth Wilson held the screen over three episodes of this period drama, playing her own real life grandmother Alison Wilson. Read more... |
Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and in Private, ITV review - bachelor boy bounces backTuesday, 11 December 2018
It was when he was on holiday at his agreeable estate in the Algarve in August 2014 that Cliff Richard got a phone call telling him his Berkshire home was being raided by the South Yorkshire Police. Read more... |
Care, BBC One review - a blunt but powerful polemicMonday, 10 December 2018
You wouldn’t turn to Jimmy McGovern for a drawing-room comedy, but there’s no doubting his gift for seizing big issues and turning into them raw, bleeding chunks of drama. You’re either for him or against him, but if you’re against him he’d love to grab you by the throat and shake you into seeing it his way. Read more... |
Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942-1984, BBC Four review - the way she wasSunday, 09 December 2018
Perhaps belatedly prompted by the release of Barbra Streisand’s new album Walls, the worst-selling disc in her 55 years with Columbia Records, this documentary was an uncritical celebration of Babs’s brilliant career from her first stage appearances in the late Fifties to the joys of Hello, Dolly!, The Way We... Read more... |
The Little Drummer Girl, BBC One, series finale review - Le Carré drama comes to the boil at lastMonday, 03 December 2018
Was The Little Drummer Girl commissioned by algorithm? Those who liked The Night Manager might reasonably have been supposed to enjoy another le Carré adaptation. The two dramas had DNA in common. Read more... |
Kidding, Sky Atlantic review - tears of a clownFriday, 30 November 2018
There’s no one right way to grieve. It cuts through everyone differently, whether reverting to childhood traits or out-of-character impulses. The person you lose might mean one thing to you, and something completely different to someone else; it can hit you both differently, and equally hard. Read more... |
Death and Nightingales, BBC Two, review - slow, lyrical, slightly dullThursday, 29 November 2018
And now for something completely different from The Fall. The nerve-shredding drama from Northern Ireland was written by Allan Cubitt and featured, as its resident psychopathic hottie, Jamie Dornan (pictured below). Read more... |
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