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Sorry, but Ted Lasso is no feminist
The 11-time Emmy-winning show is back. Unfortunately, too much of it feels like an own goal
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Ricky Gervais’s Alley Cats is even worse than you thought
The Netflix cartoon is profoundly reactionary, bombastic and mawkish
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Female serial killer thriller Furious is prestige TV at its best
Emmy Rossum and Lola Petticrew shine in a show that's far deeper than a standard cat-and-mouse cop drama
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Apocalyptic heatwave thriller The Rapture will sweep you away
Ruth Madeley is excellent in a sharp drama of faith, prophecy, and corruption
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This is Christopher Nolan’s world, and we’re lucky to live in it
He’s consistently brilliant and consistently underrated – and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts.
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From Don Corleone to Donald Trump: David Thomson puts the movies on trial
Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall
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Olivia Wilde’s The Invite is the year's best film so far
Billed as a sex comedy, it’s subtle, ambiguous and moving
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Larry David, the surprising standard-bearer for American hope
The Curb Your Enthusiasm star’s US history sketch series is pretty, pretty funny – and stacked with digs at Trump
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Jumping the snark: Why Hacks went out with a whimper
A show built on conflict and acerbic one-liners ended in too much hugging and learning
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The shocking lesson of the BBC’s Brexit: A Very British Civil War
They lied and lied, we were complacent - and the culture war began in earnest
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The coming collapse of music streaming
The problem is that Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and the others all offer the same thing. The infinite jukebox is useful and fun, but a change could be on the horizon and it could come from the musicians themselves
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Why we’ve finally fallen out of love with Love Island
Ratings for the ITV juggernaut have tanked as audiences abandon artificial glamour for reality shows with actual humanity
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How Kylie Minogue remade Australia
Once derided as a ‘singing budgie’, the actor turned pop megastar has redefined what it means to be Australian, and made Britain happier too
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The Four Seasons is a very funny taste of the America we miss
Season two’s gentle satire and mid-life angst is catnip for Gen Xers
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The terrible truth we can’t ignore about the Netflix true crime formula
The Predator of Seville follows a sadly familiar pattern – women having to do the police’s work for them
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Ladies First is a waste of top-tier British talent, with a nasty undercurrent of misogyny
Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw and Sacha Baron Cohen can't save this trite and dodgy role-reversal comedy drama
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My problem with Rivals? It’s making the Tories look human again
If Badenoch had any sense, she’d order her party to embrace Jilly Cooper energy and show a bit of personality
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I’m a sex worker. Here’s what Margo’s Got Money Troubles gets right and wrong
The series about a single mother on OnlyFans asks: What do we consider acceptable ways to make money?
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Kokuho, the dazzling, savage Japanese epic you must not miss
Lee Sang-il’s remarkable film charts the cost of being a national treasure
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Our Land and a very polite class war
The documentary that asks: who owns the ground beneath our feet?
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Widow’s Bay, the best horror-comedy since An American Werewolf in London
Matthew Rhys shows off his comic chops in a show that references It, Hallowe’en and The Shining
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Is it me, or is there nothing to watch anymore?
I’ve got four rules before I commit to a series or movie - and everything Netflix or Disney puts out seems to fail
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Secret Service is today’s spy thriller wrapped in yesterday’s politics
Gemma Arterton’s character lacks heft - and the glossy ITV series lacks plausibility
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Richard Gadd’s Half Man is brutal, thrilling and unforgettable
Two years after Baby Reindeer, the actor and writer has surpassed himself
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Why is Queen Elizabeth II still beyond criticism?
The BBC’s documentary to mark what would have been her 100th birthday was always going to be respectful – but it feels too reverent
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Criminal Record has the makings of a classic
The cop drama is compelling, fiercely contemporary and underpinned by mighty performances by Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi
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Babies will break your heart. You must watch it anyway
Stefan Golaszewski’s series about baby loss explores how couples can communicate what they need – and what can happen when they don’t
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Twenty Twenty Six is an own goal that veers towards unwatchable
Hugh Bonneville’s World Cup W1A spin-off founders on flabby dialogue and grating new characters
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How Wonder Man made Marvel feel human again
The hit mismatched buddy show with Sir Ben Kingsley swaps spectacle for messy, fragile lives
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Welcome back to Gilead: The Testaments is a triumph
Violence and cruelty lurk at the lavishly appointed finishing school for daughters of the patriarchal regime
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The Pitt: One hospital, one hour, one hell of a show
Noah Wyle is exceptional in the best medical drama for years
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The UK Saturday Night Live is an unexpected hit – and this is why
The original show might be American, but nonsensical sketch comedy is very British. Our version understands that brilliantly