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Showing posts with label Alex Jennings. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Legends: The War on Drugs

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 "It's because of what happened to me that I know it hasn't happened to them." For Guy, Kate and Bailey the stakes of the ...
Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Legends: Could You Offer More?

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 "Lunch money? What are you, twelve?" 1990. It was a very different time, the early years of rave culture, and Thatcher (just!) ha...
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Sunday, 22 June 2025

The Lady in the Van (2015)

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 "You wouldn't get Harold Pinter pushing a van down the street." I remember reading, some decades ago, some mention of the tra...
Monday, 27 January 2025

Inspector Morse: The Sins of the Fathers

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 "He didn't think Mr Trevor could organise a proverbial. Even in his own brewery." Last episode was, especially on reflection,...
Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Light

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 "The King of France gave me gloves. He didn't want to marry me..." Wow. And with that... I'm broken. The genius of this r...
Thursday, 12 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: The Mirror

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 "You have few friends, Cromwell..." This episode, as are so many others, is a materpiece in how it shows us the slow bursting of ...
Monday, 2 December 2024

Wolf Hall- The Mirror and the Light: Jenneke

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 "You're going to bring them down? The oldest and richest familes in the land?" "Like skittles!" It's redundant,...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

The Crown: Season 2, Episode 6- Vergangenheit

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"He's shouting, darling. Only zealots shout." This is, perhaps, the finest episode so far, and rich in its themes of duty an...
Thursday, 21 June 2018

A Very English Scandal: Episode 3

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“I was rude, I was vile, I was queer, I was myself!" After a peerless couple of episodes, themselves a bloody good example of quality...
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

A Very English Scandal: Episode 2

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"She's the love of my life." "Don't be ridiculous!" Another utterly compelling hour of telly, then, as thing...
Saturday, 26 May 2018

A Very English Scandal: Episode 1

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"You've infected me, Jeremy, with the virus of homosexuality." There's something about Jeremy Thorpe that fascinates mor...
Friday, 27 October 2017

Victoria: The Luxury of Conscience

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"You have been a great prime minister!" And so we reach the rather gripping season finale, full of incident and excitement as we...
Tuesday, 24 October 2017

Victoria: The Sins of the Father

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"At least Ernst knows who his father is!" So Victoria gives birth, rather painfully, and his father announces that "we have...
Friday, 20 October 2017

Victoria: The Green-Eyed Monster

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"Am I just an ignoramus who has to have things summarised by my husband?" A somewhat awkward and directionless episode this time...
Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Victoria: A Soldier's Daughter

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"It may be your regiment, Albert. But it is my army." Victoria is back on ITV. I'm afraid I'm late to the party; I assu...
Monday, 17 April 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 10- Gloriana

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"You have more freedom than any consort in history. And you repay it by scowling and sulking like an adolescent." As ever, the t...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 6: Gelignite

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"There's no such thing as a blameless party in a divorce!" So this is the one where Margaret isn't allowed to marry the ...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 5: Smoke and Mirrors

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"Borrow it, Ma'am? From whom? If it's not yours, whose is it?" And so we come to the coronation, that watershed in Briti...
Tuesday, 21 March 2017

The Crown: Season 1, Episode 3- Windsor

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"I know he's Winston Churchill and all that, but remember who you are!" This episode plays a clever trick in constantly juxt...
Saturday, 19 November 2016

Victoria: Young England

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"She is not a queen. And I am not a cow!" The final episode of this excellent series, then and... yes, it's an ex use for me...