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Dynasty: The Murdochs: Season 1 (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Just as Succession overflowed with sardonic wit, playing out like a Jacobean tragedy, so too does Dynasty, the series unfurling to its pyrrhic climax.” – Independent (UK) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review The Beauty: Season 1 (2026) 72% 2/5 EDIT “As an exercise in excess, the show is flashy yet vacant, a farrago of sorts, eschewing narrative credibility for slick visuals and jet-set backdrops from Paris and Venice to Rome and Croatia.” – Independent (UK) Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Run Away: Season 1 (2026) 83% 3/5 EDIT “As disposable entertainment goes, Run Away is effective hokum. And sometimes, particularly on New Year’s Day, that’s precisely what the patient requires.” – Independent (UK) Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Traitors UK: Season 4 (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s already gloriously twisted enough to have me hooked. There goes my next few weeks.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 2, 2026 Full Review The Death of Bunny Munro: Season 1 (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Yes, it’s tough viewing. But for all its pervading gloom, The Death of Bunny Munro ultimately finds a flicker of light in the darkest corner of the human psyche. Much like Cave’s songs, then.” – Independent (UK) Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Malice: Season 1 (2025) 42% 2/5 EDIT “Yes, the gender-flip on the hackneyed toxic-nanny theme is intriguing, but too often the dialogue creaks with exposition and plot contrivances, the cast unable to breathe life into stilted exchanges. ” – Independent (UK) Nov 14, 2025 Full Review Death by Lightning: Season 1 (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The series is confident in its skin, a slow-burner with the promise of a fierce flame. Too confident, perhaps. While it’s garnished throughout with nice visual touches, Death by Lightning is not without longueurs.” – Independent (UK) Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Call My Agent!: Season 4 (2020) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Sharp, sardonic and - of course - irresistibly chic.” – Independent (UK) Jan 20, 2021 Full Review Industry: Season 1 (2020) 76% 5/5 EDIT “The kind of thrillingly fresh series that only comes along once every few years.” – Independent (UK) Nov 3, 2020 Full Review Friday Night Lights: Season 2 (2007) 92% 4/5 EDIT “You don't need to know a quarterback from a halfback to enjoy Friday Night Lights. Although it revolves around a high-school American football team, this isn't just a sports drama; it's a treatise on small-town US life.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 6, 2019 Full Review Breaking Bad: Season 3 (2010) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Tightly written and punctuated with Coen brothers-like humour, Breaking Bad is, rather appropriately for a show about meth dealers, eye-bleedingly addictive. I defy you not to become hooked.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 18, 2019 Full Review 30 Rock: Season 5 (2010) 86% EDIT “An unmitigated joy: sharp, sprightly and quick-witted.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 2 (2009) 96% EDIT “Quite brilliant: clever, witty and no longer completely reliant on the cringe-inducing humour that turned some viewers off the early episodes.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Parks and Recreation: Season 3 (2011) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Began its life as a pale imitation of The Office, but has evolved into one of the funniest sitcoms on either side of the Atlantic: a warm and witty mockumentary that never slips into maudlin sentimentality.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 11, 2019 Full Review Collateral: Season 1 (2018) 79% 3/5 EDIT “With a set-up this tantalising, what a shame it would be if Collateral's script doesn't settle down.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 9, 2019 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 1, Episode 1 (2011) EDIT “The plot is intentionally complex, too, while the scale of the production is astonishing: with its sumptuous scenery and nifty camerawork, Game of Thrones looks like a Hollywood movie.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 12, 2019 Full Review Hemlock Grove: Season 1 (2013) 26% 2/5 EDIT “This sexed-up 13-part series, I'm afraid, is Netflix's first dud. Where it tries so desperately to be eerie and esoteric, it winds up as hackneyed and disjointed as anything the basic TV channels reel out on a regular basis.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jan 15, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Skins doesn't patronise its targeted teenage audience; it deftly tackles the issues they face day to day.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Oct 3, 2018 Full Review Community: Season 2 (2010) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Community is one of television's hidden gems: a sharp, cerebral comedy crammed full of meta-humour and movie references.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 15, 2018 Full Review Flowers: Season 2 (2018) 100% 5/5 EDIT “Not only very funny, marrying pitch-black humour to a surreal yet intensely English sensibility, it was also an affecting study of despair.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 12, 2018 Full Review Atlanta: Season 2, Episode 11 (2018) 4/5 EDIT “Offbeat and richly nuanced, it unfolds at a meditative pace while making sharp observations about pop culture, capitalism and crime.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) May 16, 2018 Full Review Misfits: Season 5 (2013) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Judging by this admittedly entertaining opener, Misfits none the less feels like a series in transition - and a world away from the show that won a Bafta in 2010.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Apr 25, 2018 Full Review Godless: Season 1 (2017) 83% 5/5 EDIT “No Netflix drama has been this lyrical and yet crisply understated: expect it to triumph at next year's Emmys.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Nov 22, 2017 Full Review The Deuce: Season 1 (2017) 93% 5/5 EDIT “The Deuce is the most potent and provocative drama of the year.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 28, 2017 Full Review Marvel's The Defenders: Season 1 (2017) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Those without a prior knowledge of the characters may find it all slightly opaque. It wasn't quite worth the wait.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 18, 2017 Full Review
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