Paul Gainey
Barry
"Barry", Bill Hader and Alec Berg’s dark HBO comedy, concerns a hitman (Hader) who is hired to kill a member of an acting workshop, but...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 42 min
The Flight Attendant
The ingredients that make up “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max’s highly entertaining, stealthily thoughtful thriller, should all feel...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 42 min
Abbott Elementary
The hilarious mockumentary set in a US school, Abbott Elementary, is full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 43 min
Crossfire
How to sum up Crossfire (BBC One), except as Die Hard sponsored by Jet2 Holidays? It is a boxset thriller in which Keeley Hawes - the...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 42 min
The Rise of the Nazis
History documentaries mixing expert analysis and dramatic reconstructions are commonplace, but the BBC’s "Rise of the Nazis" has been a...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 44 min
The Rise of the Nazis
In the last episode of 'The Rise of the Nazis' (BBC) the death, on April 12, 1945, of President Roosevelt was for Adolf Hitler his last...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 43 min
SAS: Rogue Heroes
SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC One), Steven Knight’s first time back on the BBC since the end of Peaky Blinders, is a big and brash adventure...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 42 min
Echo 3
This isn’t Jason Bourne,” says a character in an early episode of Echo 3. It feels like a pointed observation, and an unusually meta...
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Paul Gainey
Mar 42 min
Alice & Jack
What’s in the ether with sputtering, on-off romances at the moment? We’ve just had the Netflix adaptation of One Day. Now, there’s Victor...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 233 min
The English
The English (BBC Two), written and directed by Hugo Blick, is a revisionist western further revised. A beautifully shot exercise that’s...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 231 min
Happy Valley
The mind-blowingly good BBC One drama "Happy Valley" comes to an end next week. But the penultimate episode has left us with an agonising...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 232 min
Silent Witness
The 26th series of Silent Witness came to a conclusion on Tuesday night and the instalment saw the team continue their high-stakes...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 232 min
Happy Valley
After spending six weeks glued to the TV every Sunday night as Sarah Lancashire's stunning performance made us both cry and crack up in...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 233 min
The Gold
The Brink’s-Mat robbery legend only grows in a diverting retelling "The Gold" (BBC One), a six-part series from Neil Forsyth, creator and...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 233 min
Better
The new BBC One crime drama "Better" is the latest in a long line to grapple with ideas of redemption, depicting a police officer long...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 222 min
Your Honor
As the second series of 'Your Honor' opens, Adam Desiato’s death is still raw. His father, Michael (Bryan Cranston), has been impeached...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 223 min
Unforgotten
love Unforgotten wholeheartedly. It’s the meat and two veg of television crime dramas. Every one of its four series so far has served up...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 224 min
Endeavour
Fans of a TV show always fear the finale will end with death. In the case of Endeavour, which has just bowed out after 11 years, we knew...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 222 min
Asking For It
In her new documentary, Asking For It, the actress Emily Atack posed pertinent questions about online sexual harassment and its potential...
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Paul Gainey
Feb 223 min
Outer Range
"Outer Range,” a sci-fi Western from creator Brian Watkins, concerns two voids. The physical void is a smoke-filled hole in Wyoming...
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