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David Sexton

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Hit The Road: Season 1 (2017) 14% EDIT “The film feels like truly taking this ambiguous journey with this family. The road movie made new.” – New Statesman Jul 27, 2022 Full Review 9/11: One Day in America: Season 1 (2021) EDIT “9/11: One Day in America never allows you to look away. However much you have watched footage of, or read about, the attacks, it forces you to endure the day as never before; to experience it more directly, in greater detail.” – New Statesman Sep 8, 2021 Full Review Frayed: Season 1 (2019) 86% EDIT “Frayed is rude, direct and often quite painful to watch, rather than readily funny.” – London Evening Standard Aug 21, 2020 Full Review Breeders: Season 1 (2020) 83% EDIT “As parents, we've all been there? Of course. But perhaps not quite so abusively as in this spiffy comedy from accomplished stylists who treat scriptwriting as a branch of swearing.” – London Evening Standard Mar 12, 2020 Full Review Noughts + Crosses: Season 1 (2020) 76% EDIT “Fans who grew up loving Malorie Blackman's books may find such trenchant revisions a surprise - but the drama that has been made from them is properly incendiary.” – London Evening Standard Mar 6, 2020 Full Review The Stranger: Season 1 (2020) 87% EDIT “Yet the original hook remains.” – London Evening Standard Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Dracula: Season 1 (2020) 71% EDIT “This three-part adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic is a bloody masterpiece from beginning to end.” – London Evening Standard Jan 3, 2020 Full Review Upright: Season 1 (2019) 80% EDIT “Upright is a balancing act itself, loose yet structured, sad but funny, touching lightly on heavy matters, taking naturally to the road movie format, moving along easily.” – London Evening Standard Dec 30, 2019 Full Review Giri/Haji: Season 1 (2019) 100% EDIT “Giri/Haji is sharply shot and edited and not afraid of adopting radical devices, like switching into animation for some scenes.” – London Evening Standard Oct 17, 2019 Full Review Catherine the Great: Season 1 (2019) 67% EDIT “This series isn't just a vehicle for [Helen Mirren], it's a golden carriage. She is sumptuously dressed and adoringly, luminously photographed in great palaces in Russia. It's an amazing spectacle but Mirren easily dominates it.” – London Evening Standard Oct 3, 2019 Full Review Brassic: Season 1 (2019) 100% EDIT “Brassic... is a tsunami of filth. The perfect end to the perfect day.” – London Evening Standard Sep 18, 2019 Full Review This Way Up: Season 1 (2019) 93% EDIT “If you're missing Fleabag, here's your fix. This Way Up freely acknowledges the debt.” – London Evening Standard Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Harlots: Season 1 (2017) 92% EDIT “[T]his is a new style of historical drama, comparable perhaps to The Favourite but faster moving - and it's also differently inflected in being a show almost entirely created by women.” – London Evening Standard Jul 15, 2019 Full Review Serengeti: Season 1 (2019) 88% EDIT “Here it is at last: savannah soap! And it's fab.” – London Evening Standard Jul 11, 2019 Full Review Catch-22: Season 1 (2019) 84% EDIT “It's a remarkably good-looking, high-quality piece of work all round -- and it returns the story to its historical context.” – London Evening Standard Jun 20, 2019 Full Review Deep State: Season 2 (2019) EDIT “Wouldn't it be refreshing, perhaps, one day, to find a thriller that less assiduously serviced such Western liberal guilt and paranoia and even dared to suggest there are other forces at work than our own corrupted governments presenting a real threat?” – London Evening Standard May 9, 2019 Full Review When I Grow Up: Season 1 (2018) 100% EDIT “Cute though it is to see kids attempting adult jobs, this documentary is not merely winsome but it has a hard core of political intent.” – London Evening Standard May 3, 2019 Full Review Grand Designs: The Streets: Season 1 (2019) EDIT “The time has surely come to evaluate exactly what the impact of Grand Designs has been on us. Quite possibly almost entirely deleterious I suspect.” – London Evening Standard Apr 11, 2019 Full Review The Good Fight: Season 3 (2019) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Inventively shot, almost entirely indoors, The Good Fight is zingily scripted and brilliantly acted all round and it takes all kinds of risks.” – London Evening Standard Mar 28, 2019 Full Review Pose: Season 1 (2018) 96% EDIT “Pose is aspirational and celebratory -- and in pursuit of that, a little anachronistic, importing to the New York of 30 years ago all the trans commitment of today. Never mind. This is, after all a study in the lives of the saints, set to disco.” – London Evening Standard Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Dirty John: Season 1 (2018) 67% 4/5 EDIT “Eric Bana is terrific as Dirty John, so sexy and appealing yet creepy too. He combines those qualities perfectly: you really can believe that when he focuses attention on you, you can hardly resist.” – London Evening Standard Feb 14, 2019 Full Review Tin Star: Season 2 (2019) 63% EDIT “Tin Star, in its second series, has become ever more a vehicle for Roth, and is all the better for it.” – London Evening Standard Jan 31, 2019 Full Review The Directors: Season 2 (2019) EDIT “Welcome back to The Directors, the Sky Arts film strand, admirably four-square in its approach” – London Evening Standard Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Last Chance Hospital: Season 4 (1970) 4/5 EDIT “Watching this extra-ordinary documentary, now in its fourth series, makes all the supposed life-and-death dramas which we like to regale ourselves with seem not just cheap but irrelevant.” – London Evening Standard Jan 24, 2019 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “So much of this programme's impact derives from how much we like and trust him, compared with the food giants he is taking on.” – London Evening Standard Jan 10, 2019 Full Review
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