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Stuart McGurk

Stuart McGurk's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Time: Season 2 (2023) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The first season was brilliant but asked familiar prison drama questions -- about guilt and redemption, about how corrosive time inside is. This asks something subtler. Namely: screw the guilt, what if you just tried to keep the lights on? ” – London Evening Standard Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Hacks: Season 1 (2021) 100% EDIT “The smartest, most genre-defying comedy on TV right now.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Dec 9, 2021 Full Review WandaVision: Season 1 (2021) 92% EDIT “It's like plugging through porridge for the chocolate button at the bottom of every bowl.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jan 14, 2021 Full Review The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 (2020) 91% EDIT “The show is constantly setting up ideas that it never bothers to follow through on, constantly throwing up endless "Wouldn't it be cool?" moments that the show seemingly forgets about mere minutes later.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jul 27, 2020 Full Review The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty: Season 1 (2020) 80% EDIT “If you're telling a much-told story, why exactly are you telling it?” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jul 23, 2020 Full Review Alan Bennett's Talking Heads: Season 1 83% EDIT “They are all deeply about loneliness and isolation in a way that's often hard to make gripping, but has never felt more urgent.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jun 26, 2020 Full Review The Salisbury Poisonings: Season 1 (2020) 88% EDIT “Instead, it stays so wedded to the facts - flip-flopping between disparate accounts, no viewpoint because it's every viewpoint - it's almost about nothing.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jun 26, 2020 Full Review Tales From the Loop: Season 1 (2020) 87% EDIT “The result for the series is beautiful and eerie - creepily calming, in fact, if those two words can be mushed together.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Apr 9, 2020 Full Review Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness: Season 1 (2020) 84% EDIT “What's particularly great is how cleverly structured it is. Just when you feel you know where the story is going - and, you know, have a good idea of the rights and wrongs - the makers love nothing more than to pull the rug from right underneath you.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Mar 23, 2020 Full Review Narcos: Mexico: Season 2 (2020) 81% EDIT “Narcos: Mexico season two feels more like a docudrama than a drama - just one without captions to tell you who everyone is...” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 14, 2020 Full Review Star Trek: Picard: Season 1 (2020) 86% EDIT “No matter the warp speed setting that a streaming platform like Amazon Prime puts on the budget and feel of Picard, the reality looks like a show that finds it hard to escape the gravitational pull of its past.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jan 31, 2020 Full Review Turn Up Charlie: Season 1 (2019) 52% EDIT “It's perfectly amusing.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Love: Season 1 (2016) 87% EDIT “What makes Love on Netflix interesting is not just that we don't ever seem to be fully told to buy Mickey's free spirit Pixie Dream Girl status but that we're never really supposed to buy into Gus's nice guy status either.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jul 3, 2019 Full Review Atlanta: Season 2 (2018) 98% EDIT “Atlanta is often as unsettling as it is funny.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jul 2, 2019 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 5 (2019) 66% EDIT “Compared to the deep imaginative voyages of previous series... the new season feels woefully underpowered.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jun 5, 2019 Full Review Our Planet: Season 1 (2019) 93% EDIT “A wildlife doc that does nothing but talk of potential doom is not a fun one, and the first episode of Our Planet walks the line expertly. It also ends with a sucker-punch that puts the BBC's five-minute-environmental-aside model to shame.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Apr 26, 2019 Full Review 60 Days on the Streets: Season 1 (2019) 100% EDIT “The results - and I'm as shocked as you to report this - are actually remarkable.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Mar 18, 2019 Full Review Flack: Season 1 (2019) 74% EDIT “It's technically about the hidden push and pull between truth and entertainment and the dark arts of perception management, except one seemingly using a script that's been written entirely in emoji.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Succession: Season 1 (2018) 89% EDIT “Succession occupies a world of gleaming Manhattan apartments and sterile office buildings, but at its heart we're under no illusions that it's animal and primal and messy and disgusting.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 15, 2019 Full Review The Long Song on Masterpiece: Season 1 (2018) 95% EDIT “As stripped back there is actually a pretty great drama here just trying to get out.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 13, 2019 Full Review Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) 100% EDIT “Catastrophe, thank God, hasn't morphed into a cuddly family sitcom where the kids get their share of unlikely witty lines.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 13, 2019 Full Review Pure: Season 1 (2019) 82% EDIT “It wants to tackle a thorny hard-to-tackle issue. But Pure is a drama without thorns. It's too pure for its own good.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 8, 2019 Full Review Catastrophe: Season 4 (2019) 95% EDIT “A lot of comedies would have a neat way to tie this up and there's a revelation that... sorta does. But the show's heart isn't it in and, as always for Catastrophe, that's for the best.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 8, 2019 Full Review The Umbrella Academy: Season 1 (2019) 77% EDIT “I know none of it should work. But it's also intimate and human and delightfully off-kilter.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Feb 8, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Elsewhere, it's my sad duty to report there are some even easier wins being missed here.” – GQ Magazine [UK] Jan 29, 2019 Full Review
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