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Has TV reached peak gore? The Walking Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead push limit
In the past month TV has seen lashings of blood and guts previously only witnessed in cult splatter films – how much can viewers take? Warning: spoilers

Phelim O'Neill

26, Oct, 2016 @4:06 PM

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Halt and Catch Fire: not Mad Men in the 80s, but so much better
The third season signed off with a leap into the 90s and an episode full of arguments about technology that were really about something much deeper

Phelim O'Neill

12, Oct, 2016 @7:50 PM

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Veep season five – supernaturally selfish Selina tops Trump
US politics may look un-satirisable. But Veep and Julia Louis-Dreyfus played it beautifully, with tragic backstories, comedy grotesques – and a shock ending

Phelim O'Neill

27, Jun, 2016 @3:00 PM

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Out of the Unknown review: 1960s BBC sci-fi from a Who’s Who of literary talent
Futurism by Forster, colonising space with Ballard and gleaming white hospitals designed by Ridley Scott – thank goodness it wasn’t all wiped

Phelim O'Neill

23, Jun, 2016 @3:30 PM

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Farewell Penny Dreadful, you 'great fertile bitch of evil'
After three seasons, the twisted horror story for our times has been cancelled. I’ll miss it all – the night creatures, the prostitute armies and the suitors from Hell

Phelim O'Neill

21, Jun, 2016 @3:46 PM

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All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be
Stuffed with amazing footage, this magisterial history of pop – partly narrated by Liberace, partly written by Stephen Sondheim – got more than a little help from John Lennon’s contacts book

Phelim O'Neill

26, May, 2016 @2:19 PM

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Penny Dreadful is so gory and so great it'd be a crime not to watch
Where other grisly dramas seem to churn out random gruesome imagery, this show is surreal, genuinely uneasy – and full of your horror story favourites from Frankenstein to Dracula

Phelim O'Neill

04, May, 2016 @12:14 PM

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Mid Morning Matters box set review: classic banter with Alan Partridge
Meatloaf-inspired phone-ins, a luddite folksinger and an anecdote about Scalextric swapped for cocaine – Norfolk’s showbiz legend returns to his radio roots

Phelim O'Neill

28, Apr, 2016 @5:09 PM

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Better Call Saul: it's not Breaking Bad – but it might be even better
It’s got murder, mystery, Mike Ehrmantraut – and the most profound depiction of brothers ever seen on TV. Not bad for a show where nothing ever happens

Phelim O'Neill

19, Apr, 2016 @3:10 PM

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Doomwatch box set review: vintage 70s apocalypse drama still has the power to chill
The BBC’s worst-case scenario science-based drama was plausibly terrifying – even if it did have dodgy video effects and wobbly sets

Phelim O'Neill

07, Apr, 2016 @3:35 PM

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Night Gallery box set review: The Twilight Zone spin-off that launched Spielberg
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone follow-up was awash with Hollywood talent – and still contains some of the best TV ever

Phelim O'Neill

17, Mar, 2016 @4:18 PM

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Romanzo Criminale box set review: Italian crime caper that’s like an unputdownable novel
A 2008 smash in its native Italy, this 22-episode series traces the rise of a team of Roman gangsters from petty crime underlings to brutal heroin overlords – and their ultimate fall

Phelim O'Neill

25, Feb, 2016 @6:47 PM

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