First look UK TV review: Brave New World

This lavish adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s novel is handsome and slick, but without an edge.Read More

First look UK TV review: The Walking Dead: World Beyond

This young adult spin on The Walking Dead has the potential to grow into something different.Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Emily in Paris

This outdated, oblivious romantic comedy is truly insipid nonsense.Read More

Amazon TV review: Utopia (2020)

This reconfiguration of Channel 4’s dystopian thriller is an entertaining echo of the unique original.Read More

UK TV review: Ghosts Season 2

Ghosts gets even more spirited in this clever, imaginative, laugh-out-loud funny second season.Read More

BBC Three TV review: Just One Night

This high concept, almost anti-dating show, posits the question of whether you’d leave your partner after spending ‘just one night’ with the person of your dreams, almost as though the Ashley Madison dating website has come to life. Bonnie and … Read More

Why you should catch up with ITV’s Des

This brilliantly acted true crime drama is a gripping, disturbing retelling of the circus surrounding a serial killer.Read More

Why you should be watching Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Season 3 premieres on 9th July 2024. This mini review is based on Season 1 and was originally published as part of a BBC Three reviews column.

Rising star Awkwafina (real name Nora Lum) plays Nora Lin, a fictionalised … Read More

Netflix UK TV review: Ratched

“I wish I got to Mildred Ratched before the world got to her,” remarks someone halfway through Ratched, Netflix’s prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. If that sentence made you do a double-take, this brazen, bloody piece of … Read More

Criminal Season 2 review: Brilliantly simple, rivetingly complex

Netflix’s superbly acted, sharply streamlined crime procedural is rivetingly complex telly.Read More