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Lucy Mangan

Lucy Mangan is the Guardian TV critic and author of Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

May 2025

  • Katherine Ryan holding a pomeranian dog in her arms in Silence is Golden, with Dermot O'Leary blurred out in the background

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    Silence is Golden review – Katherine Ryan would definitely kill your dog for cash

    This nerve-jangling gameshow – in which stars try to make an audience laugh, gasp or worse – gives us comics on gloriously evil form and the best TV villain in decades. If only they hadn’t wheeled out a naked old woman …
  • Has he done enough? … Hannah McClean as Rosie and Tom Hughes as Dr James Ford in Malpractice.

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    Malpractice season two review – relentlessly tense TV that will leave you terrified

    Who would you treat first – a woman with postpartum psychosis, or a pregnant crack addict about to be sectioned? This brilliant show looks at the impossible decisions one doctor has to make … that ends in tragedy

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      Families Like Ours review – why is this dull drama such a hit in Denmark?

    • Digested week
      You absolute … ! Brits’ inventive way with words instils a certain kind of pride

      Lucy Mangan

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      The Four Seasons review – Tina Fey’s midlife comedy is properly funny and heartbreaking

April 2025

  • Chantelle in Groomed: A National Scandal.

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    Groomed: A National Scandal review – it is staggering to hear these children called ‘promiscuous’

  • The couple’s daughter Ellena Baxter, who discovered their deaths …The Essex Millionaire Murders. (ITV1/ITVX).

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    The Essex Millionaire Murders review – absolutely grim and astonishing true-crime TV

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg standing among a group of people in a nicely decorated room in a scene from the show Étoile.

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    Étoile review – a ballet show that’s absolutely not on pointe

  • Joe Lycett's United States of Birmingham.

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    Joe Lycett’s United States of Birmingham review – what a brilliantly daft road trip, bab!

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    999: The Critical List review – it’s rare to see doctors crack like this

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    Pilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps review – so wonderful that my faith in celebrities is restored

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    Love My Face review – this presenter is an absolute gift to television

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    Just Act Normal review – to watch this wonderful show is to see stars being born

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    The Diamond Heist review – Guy Ritchie’s thrilling tale of the failed Millennium Dome jewel robbery

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    The Stolen Girl review – you will forget this enjoyably preposterous thriller within five seconds of finishing it

  • Digested week
    Digested week: It’s 35 years since the ‘tax man’ conceded married women were independent beings

    Lucy Mangan

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    Your Friends & Neighbours review – Jon Hamm’s fun new drama is like The White Lotus back from holiday

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    Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing review – nothing about this shocking tale feels OK

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    Reunion review – this excellent British Sign Language thriller is an absolute revelation

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    Dying for Sex review – Michelle Williams’ erotic journey is revolutionary TV

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