Posts By Helen Archer
BBC Three TV reviews: What’s new on the online channel and what’s worth watching?
May 23, 2020 | Helen Archer
In February 2016, BBC Three became the UK’s first online TV channel. The channel continues to serve up fresh new stuff every day, both long-form drama, documentary and comedy and short-form content that ranges from animations and clips to interviews … Read More
First look UK TV review: Little Fires Everywhere
May 21, 2020 | Helen Archer
This slow-burn study of race, class and privilege is full of highly combustible materials.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane
May 19, 2020 | Helen Archer
Liz Garbus’ nuanced investigation of a supermom’s mysterious death is a harrowing study of the lies we tell ourselves and each other.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
May 5, 2020 | Helen Archer
A reasonable primer for newcomers to Cyntoia Brown’s story, this Netflix documentary fails to give its subject a voice.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Tall Man (2011)
April 21, 2020 | Helen Archer
This unhurried 2011 documentary is an understated lament for all the lives torn asunder by injustice.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez
March 24, 2020 | Helen Archer
Every Tuesday, our resident true crime obsessive gets their fix with a documentary film or series. We call it True Crime Tuesdays.
In these disquieting times, viewers are doubtless seeking some sort of escapism from a grim news cycle and … Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: White House Farm
February 25, 2020 | Helen Archer
ITV’s retelling of the 1985 White House Farm murders is a quietly devastating and sensitively told true crime drama.Read More
True Crime Tuesdays: Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Margaret Fleming
January 21, 2020 | Helen Archer
Every Tuesday, our resident true crime obsessive gets their fix with a documentary film or series. We call it True Crime Tuesdays.
Director Matt Pinder’s previous work for BBC Scotland includes Murder Case: The Disappearance of Julie Reilly, a boldly … Read More
BBC Three TV review: Shrill
January 4, 2020 | Helen Archer
Top-notch writing and a glorious lead turn make this body-positive comedy a sensitive, bittersweet, funny treat.Read More
True Crime Tuesday: Don’t F**k with Cats
December 24, 2019 | Helen Archer
Every Tuesday, our resident true crime obsessive gets their fix with a documentary film or series. We call it True Crime Tuesdays.
Most of you will know by now that this is not a polemic aimed at the critics of … Read More
