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Waiting for the Out: Season 1 (2026) 5/5 EDIT “In the end, this is a gripping, moving study in vulnerability and acceptance. The prisoners open up and eventually, so does Dan. In doing so, they admit the capacity for change. ” – Guardian Jan 12, 2026 Full Review The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “The Lowdown is frequently very funny; working as both a genre piece and as a character study. And yet, as with Harjo’s previous show Reservation Dogs, there’s something profoundly serious going on here too. ” – Guardian Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Prisoner 951: Season 1 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “While this drama is powered by anger, it’s probably best understood as a defiant love story.” – Guardian Dec 2, 2025 Full Review Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser: Season 1 (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “It would probably have benefited from fewer voices, a little more analysis and a clearer narrative through-line. However, the stories it tells are powerful enough to stick in the memory, as warnings from recent history.” – Guardian Aug 15, 2025 Full Review King of the Hill: Season 14 (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “There remains a lightness and ease to these exchanges. Fittingly, as is the case with most longstanding relationships, the old rhythms return almost immediately, for the Hills and for viewers. ” – Guardian Aug 5, 2025 Full Review Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time: Season 1 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “This documentary feels timely and resonant because, 20 years on, it still seems like unfinished business.” – Guardian Jul 29, 2025 Full Review Transaction: Season 1 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Transaction isn’t perfect. Plenty about it feels generic, and certain characters are underwritten. But sometimes, a show fits a particular moment -- and often, that show is a sitcom.” – Independent (UK) Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Death Valley: Season 1 (2025) 77% 2/5 EDIT “There are undoubtedly less pleasant ways to spend a Sunday evening in front of the television. But this is less cosy crime, more comatose crime.” – Independent (UK) May 27, 2025 Full Review Poker Face: Season 2 (2025) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Like the shows it most obviously recalls (it’s impossible not to mention Columbo at this point), it’s deeply contrived. But the contrivances are a big part of the fun -- sometimes they subvert conventions, sometimes they wink gleefully at them. ” – Independent (UK) May 2, 2025 Full Review This City Is Ours: A Crime Family Saga: Season 1 (2025) 93% 4/5 EDIT “In a world of boilerplate crime dramas populated by cookie-cutter criminals, this willingness to embrace moral ambivalence prevents This City is Ours from feeling like more of the same.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Twitter: Breaking the Bird: Season 1 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Ultimately, this documentary tells a great 21st century cautionary tale -- although whether any lessons will be learned remains to be seen.” – Independent (UK) Apr 4, 2025 Full Review Get Millie Black: Season 1 (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Get Millie Black lives and breathes. This might be a crime thriller, but it isn’t just a crime thriller. In the right hands, a crime thriller can contain multitudes.” – Independent (UK) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story: Season 1 (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “The excellent lead, Lucy Boynton, is equal parts insolent charisma and wary vulnerability, a woman so accustomed to withstanding life’s hard knocks that she finds it difficult to let her guard down under any circumstances.” – Independent (UK) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Dope Girls: Season 1 (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “Unlike the picaresques it celebrates, the show itself never quite commits fully enough to its own milieu and its own concept. It needs to be braver to become, like the women whose stories it tells, more distinctively itself. ” – Independent (UK) Feb 24, 2025 Full Review Australia : Faraway Downs: Season 1 (2023) 56% 1/5 EDIT “Sadly, the same problems remain: Faraway Downs still feels baggy, bloated, lacking in emotional or historical nuance and tonally confused. It’s The African Queen meets Crocodile Dundee.” – Guardian Nov 26, 2023 Full Review EDIT “News parodies had existed before. But none even remotely as acute or as painstakingly assembled as this.” – Guardian Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Shetland: Season 1 (2013) EDIT “The concluding part of this Ann Cleeves adaptation...continues to wring considerable capital out of Shetland's combination of big skies and claustrophobic, parochial smallness.” – Time Out Apr 8, 2019 Full Review Doc Martin: Season 6 (2013) 88% EDIT “Odd to say for such an enduring series but it feels like 'Doc Martin' still struggles with its tone... Still, Clunes is likeably lugubrious.” – Time Out Feb 6, 2019 Full Review The Client List: Season 1 (2012) 37% EDIT “Leaden dialogue, hilariously linear plotting and semi-comatose performances.” – Time Out Jan 24, 2019 Full Review Wentworth Prison: Season 1 (1970) 80% EDIT “We'd happily forgive these bewildering leaps of narrative faith if the show was as much daft fun as its predecessor.” – Time Out Nov 14, 2018 Full Review True Blood: Season 6 (2013) 44% EDIT “Truly an object lesson in the consequences of removing all sense of jeopardy from a story in the interests of cynically stringing it out: events in 'True Blood' have become all but meaningless.” – Time Out Sep 24, 2018 Full Review Homeland: Season 3 (2013) 80% EDIT “Events are conspiring against 'Homeland'.” – Time Out Jul 23, 2018 Full Review Atlantis: Season 1 (2013) 62% EDIT “This opener doesn't quite muster enough of a balance between humour and horror.” – Time Out Jul 5, 2018 Full Review Hebburn: Season 1 (2012) EDIT “The performances are very likeable and Jason Cook's writing occasionally hints at some turbulence beneath the surface. But generally, this is affirmative and big-hearted, but also predictable and passive to a fault.” – Time Out Jul 5, 2018 Full Review Banshee: Season 1 (2013) 67% EDIT “Many of the characters feel a touch generic.” – Time Out Jul 3, 2018 Full Review
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