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Lucy Mangan

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Saturday Night Live UK: Season 1 (2026) 92% 3/5 EDIT “It felt refreshing to see an ambition/piece of madness like retooling a legacy US brand for this septic isle even being attempted. It did not fail. And in the coming weeks, let’s hope, it can build towards real success.” – Guardian Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Imperfect Women: Season 1 (2026) 44% 3/5 EDIT “Imperfect, then, definitely. But escapist fun enough.” – Guardian Mar 18, 2026 Full Review The Other Bennet Sister: Season 1 (2026) 92% 3/5 EDIT “The Other Bennet Sister feels too slight a thing even for the pre-watershed Sunday evening slot it is designed for. But the growing charm and heft – not to mention the lovely central performance from Bruccoleri -- make it one worth sticking with. ” – Guardian Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Claudia Winkleman Show: Season 1 (2026) 67% 2/5 EDIT “We love Claudia Winkleman, absolutely, yes... This is obvious. This is a given. And all of this remains true despite the unholy mess of the opening instalment of the long-and-loudly-heralded Claudia Winkleman Show.” – Guardian Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Walsh Sisters: Season 1 (2025) 71% 3/5 EDIT “On its own terms, and as a drama rather than a comedy-drama, it’s fine. And, of course, the books remain, and are as clever and comforting and funny as you remember.” – Guardian Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Rooster: Season 1 (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “Younger viewers will roll their eyes at the lazier jokes about the generational divide and it would indeed have been better if these could have been more focused. On the other hand, theirs is the world, so let us have these 10 half-hours, eh?” – Guardian Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Vladimir: Season 1 (2026) 73% 5/5 EDIT “Part of its power is its insistence that none of us is pure in motive, clear in our conscience, or honest with ourselves or others; nor do we treat life with the respect it deserves and the people we meet with the compassion they require.” – Guardian Mar 5, 2026 Full Review DTF St. Louis: Season 1 (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “You may well find yourself DTFinishing the whole thing in a single watch.” – Guardian Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Vanished: Season 1 (2026) 41% 2/5 EDIT “If you have had a very bad day, Vanished is slight and daft and distracting enough to soothe a fractious soul. Other than that, let us hope both the leads get a chance to show up in something much, much better next time.” – Guardian Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Being Gordon Ramsay: Season 1 (2026) 53% 3/5 EDIT “Enjoy or don’t. No offence, but Ramsay’s got better f---ing things to worry about.” – Guardian Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Love Story: Season 1 (2026) 81% 2/5 EDIT “...what emerges on screen is an endless, drab slog charting what feels like every moment, no matter how narratively pointless, of the couple’s pre-relationship situations, courtship and marriage.” – Guardian Feb 14, 2026 Full Review How to Get to Heaven From Belfast: Season 1 (2026) 95% 4/5 EDIT “You might just occasionally wish it would pause for a moment to allow everyone to catch their breath and give moments time to land. But overall the experience is a switchbacking rush of joy.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Lord of the Flies: Season 1 (2026) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Falls victim to the modern curse of psychology... It reduces the elemental power of the story, along with its point, which is how much evil there is in a man and whether it can be overcome.” – Guardian Feb 11, 2026 Full Review Under Salt Marsh: Season 1 (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The drama poses the question of whether such independence serves a person or a community equally well under more extreme circumstances -- be they meteorological or emotional -- or whether a community can implode under the strain.” – Guardian Feb 4, 2026 Full Review Wonder Man: Season 1 (2026) 91% 4/5 EDIT “Not only are the eight episodes only around half an hour long but they also eschew spectacle in favour of storytelling. It’s a radical idea, but you never know, it might catch on.” – Guardian Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Beauty: Season 1 (2026) 72% 4/5 EDIT “In short, The Beauty is a return to bingeable Murphy goodness (and a harking back, subject-wise, to arguably some of his best work, Nip/Tuck).” – Guardian Jan 22, 2026 Full Review Steal: Season 1 (2026) 77% 4/5 EDIT “Amid all the action, however, Steal finds room for thought. While never taking its foot off the narrative gas, the series becomes a meditation on the notion that the love of money is the root of all evil. ” – Guardian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: Season 1 (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Perhaps the fact that it is not going to set the world on fire, either literally within the show or metaphorically without it, is the point. The real world is now too Westeros-like for us to cope with any more.” – Guardian Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Agatha Christie's Seven Dials: Season 1 (2026) 71% 2/5 EDIT “Retro without flair and full of modern concerns about everyone’s emotional wellbeing is a mix that doesn’t work for me.” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review The Great British Baking Show: Holidays: Season 8, Episode 1 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “A little chance to exhale, God rest ye self a moment and brace yourself before the next fascinating piece of festive disaster comes along.” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Can You Keep a Secret?: Season 1 (2026) 92% 3/5 EDIT “Can You Keep a Secret? has charm, wit and warmth enough to work as soothing balm rather than riotously fun fare. Though if farce is your thing, you will probably find yourself edging more towards the latter and enjoy yourself very much. ” – Guardian Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Pole to Pole With Will Smith: Season 1 (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Smith is an unexpectedly warm, attentive listener. It’s a lovely mix, and makes Pole to Pole a celebrity documentary that is an honourable exception to the usual dross that passes commissioning muster.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Hijack: Season 2 (2026) 73% 4/5 EDIT “I can say no more without massive spoilers, but if you’ve tuned in for one minute, you’ll be there for them all. So enjoy, and I’ll see you again at the end of what promises to be another rollicking ride.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Heated Rivalry: Season 1 (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “We wait for the main pair to grow up. The second half of the show lets them, a bit. Sex becomes love (and sex) and intimacy (and sex) and the banter improves a bit. Whether it is reward enough for sitting through the first few hours is for you to decide. ” – Guardian Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Girl Taken: Season 1 (2026) 80% 4/5 EDIT “Alfie Allen, in a fantastic and -- given how much he clearly relishes the meaty role -- fantastically restrained performance.” – Guardian Jan 8, 2026 Full Review
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