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

    Review
    Silence is Golden – 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 …
  • Bella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us season two, episode four.

    The Last of Us recap: season two, episode four – now that is what you call romance

  • Louis Theroux in the documentary The Settlers, in which he visited Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank

    Palestinian activist says home raided ‘in revenge’ for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary

  • Noah Wyle in The Pitt

    The doctors will see you now! It’s the all-time top 20 TV medical dramas

  • Elisabeth Moss, eyes closed, cuddles a baby who is sucking her thumb

    ‘It normalises the abhorrent’: is The Handmaid’s Tale the most frustrating show on TV?

  • Has he done enough? … Hannah McClean as Rosie and Tom Hughes as Dr James Ford in Malpractice.

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

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Reviews

  • (Left to right) Marco Calvani, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey and Will Forte in The Four Seasons.

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

  • Edison Alcaide as Jean Charles de Menezes in Suspect

    Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
    The horror is still breathtaking

    • Lyna Khoudri and Benjamin Voisin in Carême. Episode one

      Carême
      A sexy French romp about a chef who’s too spicy to handle

    • Holden and Brunson in the sunshine, she in off-the-shoulder blouse and straw hat

      Cheat: Unfinished Business
      The single worst show that has ever been created

    • A true watershed moment … Louis Theroux in The Settlers.

      The Settlers
      This vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

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    Episode recaps

    • Bella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us season two, episode four.

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