Hacks, review: HBO’s superb comedy-drama is every bit as brilliant as you’ve heard

It’s one of the (many) weird things about television in 2022 that a great show that everyone seems to be raving about can remain siloed behind a…

TV’s dirtiest cops: how The Shield took toxic masculinity to the limit

The question is always this: what’s the greatest American TV series, The Sopranos or The Wire? The answer (the real answer) is The Shield, the thundering, breakneck, perilously dark cop…

TV’s dirtiest cops: how The Shield took toxic masculinity to the limit

The question is always this: what’s the greatest American TV series, The Sopranos or The Wire? The answer (the real answer) is The Shield, the thundering, breakneck, perilously dark cop…

Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, review – wide-eyed gorge fest fails to do what it says on the tin

You’ll know the cereal advert face, even if you don’t know it’s called that. Someone is offered a bowl of cereal, they take it reluctantly and then…