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The Offer
It shouldn’t take an uninspired TV series to prove how hard it is to make an inspired movie.

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20253 min read


The Perfect Couple
A murder that almost everyone in the vicinity had a motive to carry out...

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20253 min read


The Night Agent
Netflix’s newest spy thriller “The Night Agent” reminded me of ‘90s and ‘00s projects like “In the Line of Fire” and the Bourne movies.

Paul Gainey
Feb 7, 20254 min read


Gavin and Stacey- Christmas Special
What a perfect Christmas present – Smithy tearfully proposing to Nessa...

Paul Gainey
Feb 3, 20253 min read


Sweetpea
In the iconic movie The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger's Joker chillingly tells Batman: "Madness is a lot like gravity...

Paul Gainey
Jan 31, 20253 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


The Flight Attendant
The ingredients that make up “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max’s highly entertaining, stealthily thoughtful thriller, should all feel...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


Abbott Elementary
The hilarious mockumentary set in a US school, Abbott Elementary, is full of astonishingly rapid-fire jokes, immaculate timing and...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20244 min read
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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20243 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Mar 4, 20242 min read


The English
The English (BBC Two), written and directed by Hugo Blick, is a revisionist western further revised. A beautifully shot exercise that’s...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20243 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20241 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20242 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20242 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20243 min read


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...

Paul Gainey
Feb 23, 20243 min read
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