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Derry Girls, Series Two, Channel 4 review - welcome back, gangWednesday, 06 March 2019
When Derry Girls premiered on Channel 4 in early 2018, there was little fanfare. But it’s been a whirlwind year for the four girls from Derry (and the wee English lad), capturing British hearts before conquering the US through Netflix. Read more... |
Fleabag, Series 2 review - a standing ovationTuesday, 05 March 2019
What a super-talented woman Phoebe Waller-Bridge is. Read more... |
Marianne Faithfull, BBC Four review - more than a vagabond lifeMonday, 04 March 2019
French actor and director Sandrine Bonnaire’s warm, langorous film portrait of la Faithfull may not the first – that accolade goes to Michael Collins’s feature-length Dreaming my Dreams (2000), featuring Mick, Keith, Anita and John Dunbar – but it does feel like a... Read more... |
Soft Cell: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, BBC Four review - an electro-pop celebrationSaturday, 02 March 2019
“It’s never been about the success to me,” says Marc Almond, “It’s always been about the adventure.” It’s a great attitude that’s writ large over the band’s uncompromising flame-out of an early Eighties pop career. Read more... |
Strike Back: Silent War, Sky 1 review - bullets, bodies, baddies and a stolen atom bombFriday, 01 March 2019
Some things never change. About 60 per cent of this first show in Strike Back’s seventh series consisted of Mac McAllister (Warren Brown) and his intrepid Section 20 squad mowing down members of a Malaysian triad gang with automatic weapons. Read more... |
This Time with Alan Partridge, BBC One review - a man out of time?Tuesday, 26 February 2019
“I’ve remained a vital presence on the fringes of TV Land,” argues Alan Partridge in an interview with Radio Times, the man whose latest claim to… well, not fame, but at least he has been presenting Mid Morning Matters on North Norfolk Digital. Read more... |
Curfew, Sky One, review - belt up for a budget-price Mad MaxSaturday, 23 February 2019
Curfew (Sky One) is a new drama that begins as it means to go on, roaring from nought to 60 with a wildly implausible car chase. An electric blue McLaren is haring and weaving through London, with the law in hot pursuit. Forget the computer-generated high-speed U-turn and the armour-plated panda cars. Read more... |
Sleeping with Extremists: The Far Right, Channel 4 review - insightful but flawed documentaryFriday, 22 February 2019
It’s always interesting to see how presenters make their presence known in documentaries. Louis Theroux hovers on the sidelines like an ethereal presence, Stacey Dooley connects immediately on an emotional level, and one-time host Keith Allen handled proceedings like a fight before a Millwall game. Read more... |
Traitors, Channel 4 review - Cold War thriller fails to reach room temperatureMonday, 18 February 2019
It’s 1945 and World War Two is nearly over. Somewhere in England, Fiona Symonds (“Feef” to her friends) is training to be a spy and be dropped behind enemy lines. Read more... |
Baptiste, BBC One review - detective from The Missing gets his own hand-me-down showMonday, 18 February 2019
Is there an algorithm for writing this review? There seems to have been one used to create Baptiste, a spin-off from The Missing, and even the staunchest fans of Tchéky Karyo will be struggling not to see the all-too-familiar formula poking through the script. Read more... |
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