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Andrew Billen

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EDIT “Rom-coms traditionally end in an airport... In contrarian fashion, Love Life -- whose jokes, despite the presence of Alexander Armstrong and Gregor Fisher, were so lame that it would be safer to define it a rom-dram -- instead began in an airport.” – The Times (UK) Sep 1, 2020 Full Review 2/5 EDIT “It is the most old-fashioned comedy on television.” – The Times (UK) May 22, 2020 Full Review Boy Meets Girl: Season 1 (2009) 33% 2/5 EDIT “Everyone means well. Apart from the obvious milestone in casting Root, that is about as much you can say so far for Boy Meets Girl.” – The Times (UK) May 22, 2020 Full Review The Musketeers: Season 1 (2014) 61% 4/5 EDIT “The fights were good, the women were comely and the production values high.” – The Times (UK) Nov 20, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 3 (2011) 100% 3/4 EDIT “"Parks" has been much aided by the arrival of Rob Lowe as the most ebullient accountant ever... Yet from the dialogue to the pacing there is still a feeling Parks does not know whether it wants to be The Office or Arrested Development.” – The Times (UK) Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Cold Feet: Season 5 100% EDIT “I come to praise not bury Cold Feet. Its themes were adult, its dialogue was smart, its use of fantasy at least as witty as Ally McBeal's. It was not about detectives. Its choice of music was exquisite.” – The Times (UK) Jul 24, 2019 Full Review Cold Feet: Season 1 (1998) 80% EDIT “There are comparisons to be made with the late, lamented thirtysomething and Ally McBeal, not just in the milieu, but the production values and fantasy sequences. But it is less dramatic and funnier than either.” – The Times (UK) Jul 18, 2019 Full Review The Great British Bake Off: Season 6 (2015) 100% 4/5 EDIT “[Nadiya] Hussain is not just a star baker, she is a star.” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2019 Full Review The Hollow Crown: Season 2 (2016) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Cumberbatch, as he must, stole the show, but the triumvirate of Keeley Hawes, Judi Dench and Sophie Okonedo at one point gave him competition.” – The Times (UK) Apr 23, 2019 Full Review Toast of London: Season 3 (2015) 90% 4/5 EDIT “It is very funny, and also innocent. Toast does have sex, mainly with the wife of his rival Ray Purchase, Mrs Purchase, but for him sex is just another performance, and a monologue at that.” – The Times (UK) Apr 22, 2019 Full Review Peep Show: Season 2 (2004) EDIT “Peep Show has, unlike its protagonists, matured wonderfully in its second run and produced some of the finest comedy of embarrassment since The Office.” – New Statesman Apr 18, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Phoenix Nights, in many ways an old-fashioned, character-based sitcom, shows how the alternative sensibility now informs everything with half of chance of bringing tears to your eyes, missus.” – New Statesman Apr 17, 2019 Full Review Man Down: Season 3 (2016) 4/5 EDIT “Its message was stark enough: Man Down is about a man not down but standing -- all alone.” – The Times (UK) Apr 15, 2019 Full Review Prime Suspect: Season 7 (2006) 100% EDIT “Deasy fills the police procedural genre with questions about ageing, appropriate and inappropriate affection, and sacrifices made for careers. His other theme, loneliness, is emphasized by Philip Martin's direction.” – New Statesman Apr 12, 2019 Full Review Green Wing: Season 1 (2004) 92% EDIT “Green Wing is not relentlessly funny, just relentless.” – New Statesman Mar 7, 2019 Full Review Death in Paradise: Season 6 (2017) 57% 2/5 EDIT “” – Sunday Times (UK) Mar 3, 2019 Full Review Lovesick: Season 1 (2014) 95% 2/5 EDIT “There is so much wrong with the new sitcom Scrotal Recall...that the really funny thing about it is that it is funny at all.” – The Times (UK) Feb 12, 2019 Full Review Doctor Foster: Season 1 (2015) 91% 5/5 EDIT “Suranne Jones, who plays Gemma, is not only one of the most emotionally uninhibited actresses in television, she is also one of the most brunette. In a world of lies and dyes, her dark locks here connote authenticity.” – The Times (UK) Oct 16, 2018 Full Review Borgen: Season 3 (2013) 100% EDIT “In the end, such was the strength of the acting that Borgen surfed to its final shore with dignity. We had kept on caring.” – The Times (UK) Sep 27, 2018 Full Review Miranda: Season 3 (2012) 67% EDIT “The sitcom has a gag rate to compare with Fawlty Towers - and some wordplay that would disgrace a Christmas cracker.” – The Times (UK) Sep 11, 2018 Full Review Beowulf: Season 1 (2016) 55% 1/5 EDIT “It is all pledges to "avenge", dodgy punk haircuts, bad child acting and monster animation that recalls Ray Harryhausen's in the Sixties.” – The Times (UK) Aug 21, 2018 Full Review Deutschland 83: Season 1 (2015) 95% 2/5 EDIT “Jonas Nay as Martin is no more than adequate in the main role, although the script has so far not given him much to do beside look, understandably, nervy.” – The Times (UK) Aug 21, 2018 Full Review Misfits: Season 2 (2010) 86% EDIT “But last night's debut of season two was dominated by the dopiest of standard-issue sci-fi plots, the arrival of a shape shifter with the ability to morph into the appearance of the Misfits.” – The Times (UK) Apr 25, 2018 Full Review Peep Show: Season 9 (2015) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's sitcom Peep Show is about the flimsy wall between civilisation and anarchy, security and penury, wellbeing and utter madness.” – The Times (UK) Mar 20, 2018 Full Review The Frankenstein Chronicles: Season 1 (2015) 78% 3/5 EDIT “The shocks were mostly achieved by loud clangs of incidental music. An hour, and still no sign of the creature.” – The Times (UK) Mar 20, 2018 Full Review
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