TV Reviews

TV Reviews
Seeds of Deceit: The deeply disturbing tale of the Dutch fertility doctor who fathered 200 children
TV Reviews
Thank goodness Bake Off is over – this was the soggiest season yet
TV Reviews
Slow Horses review: Superb third season sees Gary Oldman and his motley gang of outcast spies at full gallop
Celebrity
Pat Stacey: I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is the cockroach of reality television. It deserves to die

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator review – Luckily the subject matter is engrossing enough to withstand the cheesiest, most hackneyed treatment
Tue 28 Nov 2023 at 02:30
Doctor Who review: Old faces and a huge new budget make the Time Lord soar again
Mon 27 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Streaming review: The tragic, painful story of Harry Potter’s stunt double
Sun 26 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Real-life Squid Game brings the nastiness back to reality TV
Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 15:36
Fargo review: After a disappointing fourth season, the drama is back on top form
Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 03:30
‘An animal anus was once regarded as sufficiently gross. Now it’s three different anuses on a single slice of pizza’
Thu 23 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Squid Game: The Challenge – despite the $4.5m prize pot this spin off of the dystopian drama is just another mediocre reality show
Tue 21 Nov 2023 at 16:42
I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!: Nigel Farage is getting an even easier jungle ride than Matt Hancock
Tue 21 Nov 2023 at 03:30
Pat Stacey: This shabby, silly Bond-themed reality show cheapens the brand
Sat 18 Nov 2023 at 03:30
‘The Crown’ season 6 review: Ill-judged series takes outrageous liberties and veers into absurdity
Fri 17 Nov 2023 at 09:01

TV Reviews

Seeds of Deceit: The deeply disturbing tale of the Dutch fertility doctor who fathered 200 children

Thank goodness Bake Off is over – this was the soggiest season yet

Slow Horses review: Superb third season sees Gary Oldman and his motley gang of outcast spies at full gallop

Pat Stacey: I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! is the cockroach of reality television. It deserves to die

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator review – Luckily the subject matter is engrossing enough to withstand the cheesiest, most hackneyed treatment

Doctor Who review: Old faces and a huge new budget make the Time Lord soar again

Streaming review: The tragic, painful story of Harry Potter’s stunt double

Real-life Squid Game brings the nastiness back to reality TV

Fargo review: After a disappointing fourth season, the drama is back on top form

‘An animal anus was once regarded as sufficiently gross. Now it’s three different anuses on a single slice of pizza’

Squid Game: The Challenge – despite the $4.5m prize pot this spin off of the dystopian drama is just another mediocre reality show

I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!: Nigel Farage is getting an even easier jungle ride than Matt Hancock

Pat Stacey: This shabby, silly Bond-themed reality show cheapens the brand

‘The Crown’ season 6 review: Ill-judged series takes outrageous liberties and veers into absurdity

The Crown Season 6 review: Show has lost much of its lustre, but it still packs an emotional punch

‘Ireland 2050: Tomorrow Tonight’ review: Amateurish, smug and possibly the worst TV programme anyone has ever made

A Murder At The End Of The World review: Chilly murder mystery will leave you feeling a bit cold

Isn’t turning real-life killers like Kieran Kelly into TV stars giving them what they want?

Inside The Undertakers review: A fascinating and sad look at the inner workings of the funeral business

Robbie Williams entertains us in Netflix documentary but leaves out a crucial Irish bit of his story

The Australian Wars: Excellent three-part documentary tells how Australia whitewashed over it’s bloody history

The Nobody Zone review: Was Kieran Kelly Ireland’s most prolific serial killer or a serious fantasist?

Pat Stacey: Two starkly different films show us the ideal of JFK and the reality

Get Gotti is a hyperactive portrait of a megastar mobster that falls flat

Rolf Harris: Hiding In Plain Sight review: How the paedophile pretended to care about protecting children publicly

Pat Stacey: Britain’s Human Zoos delves into horrors of the past when human beings were displayed like wild animals

Spidey conquers rooftops of Paris to pull off art heist

The 2 Johnnies’ Late Night Lock In review: A hellish experience – never have the words ‘supported by your licence fee’ felt more like a taunt

Milli Vanilli documentary: Inside the greatest pop deception ever and its tragic consequences

Surviving Paradise review: Imagine Love Island meets Survivor with a dollop of I’m a Celeb, but infinitely more annoying

‘The Gone’ review: RTÉ Irish-New Zealand crime thriller series will cause hilarity among the Irish audience for one particular character

TV reviews: Why do so many people keep watching sport when losing is this painful?

Bodies review: This twisty, centuries-spanning mystery is so weird it will make your head pop

Review: Coleen Rooney’s authorised Wagatha tell-all misses out on the silliness

The Reckoning: The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama got a lot of criticism but not all of it was deserved

Secrets of a Delivery Driver: RTÉ doc goes on the road with the people who bring you takeaways, flowers, packages and even life-saving supplies

Frasier review: This cynical revival of the great sitcom has no reason to exist

Armchair view: ‘This is the moment that has broken Irish hearts’ – pundits join a ‘Zombie’ nation in mourning the death of a dream

Interview with the Vampire: The beautifully shot TV reboot doesn’t shy away from sex and gore

Pat Stacey: Are we finally witnessing the painful death throes of binge culture?

The Reckoning review: Steve Coogan is monstrously good as Jimmy Savile in a TV drama that’s difficult to watch

Hidden Assets review: Irish-Belgian crime thriller has become a bad Line of Duty clone

Beckham on Netflix: The overexposed megastar weeps as he recounts the media backlash

Hallelujah, RTÉ is finally giving some money back to the people

Boiling Point review: We’re back in the kitchen for a sequel that turns up the heat

Partygate: Channel 4 docudrama about No10’s Covid parties scandal is as messy as a Tory knees-up

The verdict on Patrick Kielty: He’s definitely more craic than his ‘Late Late’ predecessor but a few more tweaks are in order

Ordinary Men review: How banal Germans quickly became Nazi murderers

The Long Shadow: ITV’s powerful new drama focuses on the Yorkshire Ripper’s victims, not the murderer

Fair City review: How many people does it take to produce convincing dialogue?

Keith’s Teeth - A Dental Odyssey: The former Boyzone star gets to the root of our mania for ‘perfect’ teeth

Obituary review: A small-town writer starts murdering people to boost her earnings in RTÉ’s brilliant new black comedy

The Woman in the Wall, the year’s most misconceived drama, implodes in preposterous finale

Neighbours – A New Chapter review: A clunky, convoluted comeback for the soap that should never have been given a second life