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Reviews of TV series available on Netflix UK, Amazon Prime and other video on-demand services.
Netflix UK TV review: F Is for Family Season 2
June 22, 2017 | Mike WilliamsF is For Family’s sophomore season has made its way to Netflix just six short months after it debuted at the end of 2016, with a bigger, brasher, more blasphemous expansion to 10 episodes.
Season 1’s finale of the adult-themed … Read More
UK TV review: Twin Peaks The Return, Episodes 5 to 7 (spoilers)
June 21, 2017 | Simon KinnearThis new season of Twin Peaks is increasingly amongst the finest work David Lynch has ever done.Read More
First look Netflix UK TV review: GLOW
June 21, 2017 | Rachel BowlesAlison Brie finally gets the complex character her talent deserves in this 80s wrestling dramedy about women who literally kick ass. Read More
Amazon UK TV review: American Gods Episode 8 (spoilers)
June 19, 2017 | Josh Slater-WilliamsA very fine finale with some of the show’s best elements at play.Read More
Walter Presents TV review: Merciless
June 18, 2017 | David FarnorMerciless, or Ojos Sin Culpa (Eyes Without Guilt), or Dupla Identidade (Double Identity), is a show that’s unafraid to live exactly up to its title. The series follows a man with a double identity: Eduardo Borges (Bruno Gagliasso), a political … Read More
UK TV review: Riviera (Season 1)
June 18, 2017 | David FarnorSky’s glamorous new drama is a tacky, boring disappointment.Read More
Catch up TV review: Blind Date, Fearless, The Loch
June 18, 2017 | David FarnorWhat’s available on-demand on Freeview? Keep up-to-date with our weekly catch-up TV column, including reviews of shows on ITV Hub, new releases on All 4 and a guide to My5. (For BBC TV reviews and round-ups, see our weekly Best … Read More
Netflix UK TV review: Better Call Saul Season 3, Episode 9 (Fall)
June 18, 2017 | David FarnorWarning: This contains spoilers. Not seen Better Call Saul Season 3? Catch up with our spoiler-free review of Episode 1 here.
If there’s one thing that Better Call Saul has mastered over the course of its three seasons, it’s the … Read More
UK TV review: Doctor Who Season 10, Episode 10 (The Eaters of Light)
June 17, 2017 | Mark HarrisonA spirited but unassuming episode with a folkloric conceit.Read More
UK TV review: The Wizard of Lies
June 16, 2017 | Mike WilliamsAfter decades of movie output that’s not so much undone the largely fantastic body of work that includes Raging Bull and Goodfellas, but redefined his character type in modern film, HBO’s The Wizard of Lies sees him return to his … Read More