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Nancy Banks-Smith

Nancy Banks-Smith's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Shogun: Season 1 (1980) 79% EDIT “No subtitles. No funny accents. It is actually exciting to catch a word here and there as if your life too hung on it.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2024 Full Review Quantum Leap: Season 1 (1989) 74% EDIT “You know, people actually go out and buy this sort of thing. They sit down and write cheques and dance around the room. And then they sober up and sit down again and cancel Dr. Who” – Guardian Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Smiley's People: Season 1 (1982) 90% EDIT “How simply lovely it is to look forward to something on TV again. How comforting to watch these dependable, bankable faces, which build up such a credit balance of confidence.” – Guardian Oct 13, 2021 Full Review The Waltons: Season 1 (1972) 77% EDIT “The Waltons evidently have tap roots right down into the soft centered soul of some American dream about happy families and hospitality, which one cannot hope to share.” – Guardian Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 (1978) 43% EDIT “Battlestar Galactica has the twin virtues of economy and humanity. It is evidently shot in an amusement arcade (Wham! Splat!) and gives employment to old actors you have heard of, who would otherwise be keeling over on golf courses.” – Guardian Sep 9, 2021 Full Review Moonlighting: Season 1 (1985) 68% EDIT “There is a gentle sound of bells as your leg is pulled.” – Guardian Aug 11, 2021 Full Review Falcon Crest: Season 1 (1981) 25% EDIT “One feels for Miss Wyman, a former Oscar winner, in a serial where all the women act from the elbow, raising and lowering both forearms simultaneously -- but the star in a soap opera is meant to be mean, vicious, and boring.” – Guardian Jun 29, 2021 Full Review Roots: Season 1 (1977) 77% EDIT “If Roots were braver it would be better.” – Guardian May 5, 2021 Full Review All in the Family: Season 1 (1971) 71% EDIT “Till Death [Do Us Part] was a shock wave. The shock has a long way to come from the States and barely shakes our seismograph. But it is funny enough.” – Guardian Feb 22, 2021 Full Review The X-Files: Season 1 (1993) 83% EDIT “The X-Files, you feel, were exposed to the dangerous rays of Twin Peaks at an impressionable age.” – Guardian Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Twin Peaks: Season 2 (1990) 65% EDIT “There are more clues in Twin Peaks than episodes. There are 21 more of those to come. Think, it will be June before we know who killed Laura Palmer. I should live so long.” – Guardian Jan 27, 2021 Full Review EDIT “It is a midlife-crisis comedy, smart and stylish with a hint of poignancy and one big belly laugh which I find difficult to describe before breakfast.” – Guardian Jul 15, 2020 Full Review Doctor Who: Season 5 (2010) 100% EDIT “Even allowing for the fact that the world is going to end in 20 minutes ("The universe is cracked!"), you do feel he could simmer down a bit. And that goes for the new scriptwriter, Steven Moffatt.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season 3 (2010) EDIT “Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a light, frothy concoction, a cheesy souffle.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “It is fairly hard going at first, the clattering accents, the whiplash cutting. And could we, just once, have a press conference where a reporter says something sensible? Otherwise, wonderful. You won't see acting like this in a day's march.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Mission: Impossible: Season 5 (1970) EDIT “There was a moment during Mission Impossible when I feared that if I yawned any wider my ears would pop off like press studs.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Mystery!: Season 6, Episode 15 (1986) EDIT “The effect is dreamily idyllic. Miss Christie died rich because she kept you awake, against your will, and, swearing helplessly, into the morning.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Mystery!: Season 6, Episode 14 (1986) EDIT “The Miss Marple series is a charming period piece. Ail those long snouted sports cars and roses and rafters yoo-hooing over the shoulder of the story distract you like a Christie conjuring trick.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Return to Cranford on Masterpiece: Season 1 (2007) EDIT “Cranford has a remarkable cast and cracking performances.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Sense and Sensibility: Season 1 (2008) EDIT “This is a charmingly domestic and spontaneous treatment of the story.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Outnumbered: Season 1 (2007) EDIT “Outnumbered was a subtly funny series.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Rome: Season 2 (2007) 89% EDIT “This hearty, meaty dish is nicely seasoned with humour.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Kidnapped: Season 1 (2006) 67% EDIT “There is some smart, stylish writing and excellent acting, particularly from Timothy Hutton as Conrad Cain and Delroy Lindo as Special Agent King.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Primeval: Season 1 (2007) 67% EDIT “I was tickled pink by Primeval.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Life on Mars: Season 2 (2007) 100% EDIT “The charm of Life On Mars is the collision of old and new.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review
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