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Ellen E Jones

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BAIT: Season 1 (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It’s not a sitcom then, but it is frequently very funny. Much of the humour comes from the dialogue: a dazzling display of second-gen immigrant linguistic dexterity.” – Guardian Mar 25, 2026 Full Review Dreaming Whilst Black: Season 2 (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “So things have moved on, yet Dreaming Whilst Black remains rich with funny, true observations, about the hypocrisies and degradations of working in TV, and Black British life in general. ” – Guardian Oct 13, 2025 Full Review We Are Lady Parts: Season 2 (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Series two doesn’t up the ante, but it does takes the show’s tried and tested comedy components and uses them to once again build towards an emotionally satisfying pay-off.” – Guardian May 31, 2024 Full Review The Big Cigar: Season 1 (2024) 72% 3/5 EDIT “The Big Cigar has supplied a dispiriting answer to its own still pertinent question: no, Hollywood can’t be trusted to authentically tell the stories of Black radicals; the compulsion to centre whiteness is just too strong.” – Guardian May 17, 2024 Full Review Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer: Season 1 (2024) 3/5 EDIT “These are tragically timeless tales of villainy and victimhood, but so much more entertaining when fictional.” – Guardian Apr 3, 2024 Full Review Three Little Birds: Season 1 (2023) 88% 2/5 EDIT “Three Little Birds exhibits deep reverence for its characters, but it doesn’t really seem to know them. And while respect for the Windrush generation is entirely appropriate, it doesn’t lend itself to a satisfying, engaging television drama. ” – Guardian Nov 6, 2023 Full Review The Change: Season 1 (2023) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Linda is the role model we’ve all been waiting for. Hot flushes never looked hotter.” – Guardian Jun 27, 2023 Full Review The Last Thing He Told Me: Season 1 (2023) 39% 1/5 EDIT “Behold the rotten fruit of Big Little Lies’ loins.” – Guardian Apr 14, 2023 Full Review Beef: Season 1 (2023) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Amid this entertaining chaos, there’s also the thrillingly subversive suggestion that pelting it full-throttle down the rage super highway might be the most direct route to feeling alive again – whatever your therapist has to say.” – Guardian Apr 6, 2023 Full Review African Queens: Njinga: Season 1 (2023) 88% 2/5 EDIT “In general it lacks context or deeper analysis beyond the straight recounting of Njinga’s biography.” – Guardian Feb 15, 2023 Full Review The Gold: Season 1 (2023) 93% 4/5 EDIT “It would be unfair to fault a consistently entertaining TV drama for falling short of the gritty and gobsmacking truth.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2023 Full Review You: Season 4 (2023) 92% 3/5 EDIT “When it works, it works because Badgley is charismatic and the show is brash enough to drop a decent number of plot twists into every episode.” – Guardian Feb 9, 2023 Full Review Dear Edward: Season 1 (2023) 57% 3/5 EDIT “Dear Edward achieves the necessary moments of authentic emotion with some regularity (usually courtesy of Connie Britton), but each and every one is ruined when a folk-pop needle-drop comes mewling in like the uninvited guest at a funeral.” – Guardian Feb 3, 2023 Full Review Gunther's Millions: Season 1 (2023) 56% 2/5 EDIT “What we have here – once again – is a slim story needlessly strung out over multiple episodes.” – Guardian Feb 1, 2023 Full Review Jungle: Season 1 (2022) 67% 2/5 EDIT “This series is eminently skippable.” – Guardian Sep 30, 2022 Full Review Surface: Season 1 (2022) 46% 2/5 EDIT “From the opening shot onwards, Surface is a paint-by-numbers psychological thriller.” – Guardian Jul 29, 2022 Full Review Atlanta: Season 3 (2022) 96% 5/5 EDIT “Just when you think you’re watching a whimsical stoner-comedy, it grabs you like a dead hand reaching up from a haunted lake, and reminds you of the absurdist horror lurking beneath.” – Guardian Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Single Drunk Female: Season 1 (2022) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a show that has most to say at the very point when other shows lose interest.” – Guardian Apr 6, 2022 Full Review Reservation Dogs: Season 1 (2021) 98% 5/5 EDIT “t is a familiar coming-of-age experience, and one that is presumably only intensified when your homelands have been stolen and sold back by the colonisers more times than history records.” – Guardian Oct 14, 2021 Full Review Pose: Season 3 (2021) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The next soapy secret or lip-sync extravaganza is never far away. These elements retain their capacity to delight, despite often being flimsily strung together by threadbare plotting.” – Guardian Aug 9, 2021 Full Review I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson: Season 2 (2021) 100% 5/5 EDIT “What all the standout characters have in common is their absurdly entrenched positions. Even when confronted with logic or treated with compassion, they are incapable of backing down.” – Guardian Jul 6, 2021 Full Review Lupin: Season 2 (2021) 96% 4/5 EDIT “If Part 2 has a flaw it's only that it feels like what it is: a continuation of the previous series, rather than an adventurous leap in a different direction.” – Guardian Jun 14, 2021 Full Review Master of None: Season 3 (2021) 82% 5/5 EDIT “A riff on the ignominy of switching back to a flip-phone plays like vintage Master of None, even if it is now delivered by Denise, instead of Dev.” – Guardian May 25, 2021 Full Review Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!: Season 1 (2021) 25% 2/5 EDIT “Playing the sitcom dad in Netflix's new series, though? This might be the one thing that Jamie Foxx is properly rubbish at.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2021 Full Review Sky rojo: Season 1 (2021) 92% 4/5 EDIT “Sky Rojo's punchy 25-minute runtime is never long enough to truly try the patience. Those wild cliffhanger endings should have you slamming "next episode" faster than Coral slams the accelerator at a busy intersection.” – Guardian Mar 26, 2021 Full Review
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