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Rachel Aroesti

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Twisted Yoga: Season 1 (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “While the finer details of Twisted Yoga’s tale may be intriguingly wild, the broader picture is infuriating and sad.” – Guardian Mar 14, 2026 Full Review A Thousand Blows: Season 2 (2026) 93% 3/5 EDIT “Doherty takes these fleeting insights and turns them into a psychodrama that leaves a lasting impression. But that says more about her talent than the quality of this muddled second outing.” – Guardian Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Man Vs Baby: Season 1 (2025) 72% 2/5 EDIT “[The action] never escalates into the grand, high-wire, socially subversive physical comedy we expect from Atkinson. Instead, we just get a nauseatingly schmaltzy and nonsensical dose of Christmas cheer helmed by a kind-hearted, capable man.” – Guardian Dec 11, 2025 Full Review A Man on the Inside: Season 2 (2025) 93% 2/5 EDIT “This is a cosy, lighthearted whodunnit about a retired professor who gets a second wind as a private eye. It’s also a bingo card for just about everything that makes streamer-era TV so patronising, uninspiring and mind-numbingly dull.” – Guardian Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “Nobody Wants This is easy to buy into and easy to love. Especially if – like the show itself – you don’t think too hard about the knotty theological dilemma at its core.” – Guardian Oct 23, 2025 Full Review Juice: Season 2 (2025) 4/5 EDIT “It may not be side-splitting, but this lovable, thought-provoking and visually arresting series lives up to its promises.” – Guardian Sep 19, 2025 Full Review High Potential: Season 2 (2025) 100% 3/5 EDIT “High Potential isn’t overly concerned with realism. Made by ABC in the US, this is slick, narcotic network TV. It’s crowd-pleasing and easy on the eye.” – Guardian Sep 18, 2025 Full Review Platonic: Season 2 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Platonic ranges from great to decent company. The leads have palpable (nonsexual) chemistry, and it’s always nice to watch something that is putting serious effort into making you laugh.” – Guardian Aug 6, 2025 Full Review Mandy: Season 4 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “When comedy as boldly slapstick and overtly ridiculous as this hits its stride, it can feel like sorcery. Sadly, much like Mandy’s approach to every task under the sun, the construction of this new series seems a bit half-hearted.” – Guardian Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Transaction: Season 1 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It’s part of a refreshing rebellion against the status quo offered by this show, but Transaction remains markedly retro overall: at its core, this is a broad comic caper about some unrealistically stupid people messing about in a supermarket. ” – Guardian Jul 9, 2025 Full Review Pushers: Season 1 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Although its lack of sentimentality and commitment to hard comedy is admirable, Pushers still could have done with leaning a little further into the scathing satire promised by its setup. ” – Guardian Jun 20, 2025 Full Review What It Feels Like for a Girl: Season 1 (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It’s certainly a wild ride – I’ll struggle to look at a toilet brush the same way ever again – but if you stay on board until the end, a memorably complex psychological portrait will be your reward.” – Guardian Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Overcompensating: Season 1 (2025) 94% 4/5 EDIT “Just don’t come to Overcompensating expecting wall-to-wall comedy; this is a thoroughly charming show with a very sensitive soul.” – Guardian May 15, 2025 Full Review Poker Face: Season 2 (2025) 96% 3/5 EDIT “This tribute to case-of-the week crime dramas is so nearly a brilliant TV show... What’s not to love? The mysteries themselves, mainly.” – Guardian May 9, 2025 Full Review Man Like Mobeen: Season 5 (2025) 3/5 EDIT “It would be an achievement to sit stony-faced through an episode of Man Like Mobeen -- yet the show is not content with laughs; it is determined to double up as both a social critique and a hard-hitting crime drama. The combination can be jarring.” – Guardian May 2, 2025 Full Review Gavin & Stacey: Season 3.2 (2024) 100% 5/5 EDIT “This special is comfortably superior to the last, thanks to a solid plot and less cartoonish characterisation, but there’s no point denying that Gavin & Stacey provides far fewer laughs than in its pomp.” – Guardian Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Austin: Season 1 (2024) 63% 2/5 EDIT “This lack of authentic perspective coupled with a heavily artificial plot means Austin never feels remotely plausible. It also fails to cash in on the premise’s tear-jerking potential.” – Guardian Apr 7, 2025 Full Review The Leopard: Season 1 (2025) 73% 4/5 EDIT “This new Leopard feels visually prosaic in comparison [to the movie]; a pretty streaming series rather than a veritable work of art. The advantage is that this version is more coherent and watchable, without ever being sugary or simplistic.” – Guardian Mar 5, 2025 Full Review Big Boys: Season 3 (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “It’s heartbreaking, it’s beautiful, it’s a valuable companion in itself: sitcoms don’t get much more deep and meaningful than this.” – Guardian Feb 10, 2025 Full Review Hacks: Season 3 (2024) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Stick with it and you will be rewarded with one of the most compelling character studies currently gracing our screens. Via Deborah, the show’s creators are able to muse on the nature of success and happiness through an uncommon vessel: an elderly woman.” – Guardian Feb 8, 2025 Full Review Only Child: Season 1 (2024) 3/5 EDIT “After a cracking first episode, the series does get a bit repetitive and sluggish. Its saving grace is the relatable truth at its heart.” – Guardian Jan 22, 2025 Full Review Bump: Season 5 (2024) 4/5 EDIT “It can be hard to find entertaining, easy-to-watch TV that doesn’t break the spell of believability with groan-worthy exchanges or fantastical lifestyle porn or ludicrous coincidences. But this show avoids those pitfalls.” – Guardian Jan 14, 2025 Full Review Playing Nice: Season 1 (2025) 63% 1/5 EDIT “Playing Nice is clearly unconcerned with interrogating real human emotions or examining what it actually means to be a parent. Instead, it’s the worst of modern television: a witless mystery overly reliant on insidious ambience and really nice houses.” – Guardian Jan 6, 2025 Full Review The Traitors UK: Season 3 (2025) 100% 5/5 EDIT “For those who still believe reality TV can be truly edifying, The Traitors is manna from heaven: shedding light on how people lie and how easily others are taken in.” – Guardian Jan 2, 2025 Full Review Funny Woman: Season 2 (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Even off set, Funny Woman never strains for laughs. Instead, the overriding effect is gentle warmth -- and on an ambient level, the world of Funny Woman remains an inviting one.” – Guardian Dec 12, 2024 Full Review
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