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Michael Deacon

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House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 9 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “A mad whirl of an episode...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 17, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 8 (2022) 3/5 EDIT “Another time-jump? Goodness me.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 10, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 7 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “Grim though it may have been, this was another strong episode, crackling with tension and conflict...” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 3, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 5 (2022) 5/5 EDIT “After that slowish start to the series, the drama is now intensifying in pitch with each episode.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 4 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “Easily the best episode of the series so far.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 3 (2022) 3/5 EDIT “Am I the only one who’s getting a bit, well… bored with dragons?” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 2 (2022) 3/5 EDIT “Please do hang on in there. I’ve been lucky enough to see the next few episodes in advance and I promise it’s worth the wait.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It’s well made. It’s brilliantly shot. It seethes with tension.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 6 (2022) 5/5 EDIT “I don’t think it’s too early to say that Lord Larys is one of the most disturbing psychopaths in the entire Game of Thrones canon. And, given the competition, that’s quite some achievement.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review The Pillars of the Earth: Season 1 (2010) 77% EDIT “The political intrigue - involving, as political intrigue will, a lot of talking - was dull.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 10, 2020 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6 (2019) 1/5 EDIT “After the mess of The Bells came The Iron Throne, a finale that somehow managed to seem both rushed and sluggish, with a final twist that was both puzzling and underwhelming.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 20, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 5 (2019) 1/5 EDIT “Sorry. But no. I just didn't buy that. Any of it.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 13, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 4 (2019) 2/5 EDIT “Even setting aside the bits about Daenerys, this was, in general, a weaker episode.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 6, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 3 (2019) 5/5 EDIT “Game of Thrones has had battles before, monstrous battles, titanic battles, but nothing on the scale of this one. It was a remorseless, punishing onslaught, not just for the combatants, but for the viewer.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 29, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 2 (2019) 4/5 EDIT “They're going to lose, aren't they?” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 22, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 1 (2019) 4/5 EDIT “It was the most dramatic moment of an otherwise restrained scene-setter, largely composed of reunions and introductions. With only five more episodes of the show left to come, the lack of urgency did feel slightly frustrating.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 16, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 3, Episode 4 (2013) EDIT “Still, it should at least be good for a couple of "hand of the king" jokes from the Imp.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 18, 2019 Full Review The Hour: Season 1 (2011) 94% EDIT “At times it appears to be less a story than an exercise in upbraiding the past for failing to live up to the politically correct ideals of the 21st century.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 17, 2019 Full Review A Young Doctor's Notebook: Season 1 (2012) 100% 3/5 EDIT “The action was a peculiar mix of silliness and gore, but there were some good lines.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Dec 3, 2018 Full Review Gavin & Stacey: Season 2 (2008) EDIT “Even the knowledge that the story will be picked up again in a year or so isn't enough; we need the third series to be on air by, oh, this time next week.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 13, 2018 Full Review Miranda: Season 3 (2012) 67% 3/5 EDIT “Perhaps I'm just getting old. I'm sure I'd have loved this show when I was six.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 11, 2018 Full Review The Thick of It: Season 3 (2009) 83% EDIT “It's possible that The Thick of It's writers have started to overdo Tucker slightly...But perhaps this is a silly criticism, tantamount to saying the show's too funny.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 31, 2018 Full Review The Thick of It: Season 4 (2012) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Without [Tucker] at his hideous peak, The Thick of It is still funny, but somehow it feels like an echo of itself.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 31, 2018 Full Review That Mitchell and Webb Look: Season 4 (2010) 100% EDIT “That Mitchell and Webb Look...began its fourth series, and it was exactly as funny as the preceding three series, i.e. mostly.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 21, 2018 Full Review
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