Reviews

Made at a crucial time in American and British democracy, this is the BBC and their media millionaire friends attempting to associate the Brexit vote and the Trump vote with the vote for Hitler.

After which, they scuttle back to their second homes and tax-avoiding accountants, all the time decrying the inequalities in society.

This is propaganda, not history. Any historians on this programme should be ashamed.

As I watched this for the first time it seemed familiar. Then I realised: it pretty much followed the exact same structure as an episode of Columbo. Even the plot is very similar to Murder By the Book. I'm sure the writers had seen this film beforehand.

On the whole Dear Murderer is pretty good. The excellent cast help you overlook one or two small, hard to believe plot points.

The first 3 seasons were brilliant, some of the best television ever made. Season 4 is just an 8 hour long party political broadcast on behalf of the Woke Party. The plot, what little there is, is just a device designed to string together dozens of soap-box speeches about how terrible white people are. Goodbye Fargo.

I've spent decades watching time-travel films, and this, I think, by some margin, is the best.

A lot of films are let down by plot-holes. But here you can understand why each person does what they do. They act and react like real people, like you or I might in that same situation.

"What happens if it actually works?" is such a perfect tag-line, and this film takes the idea of time-travel out of the world of distant fantasy and places it into the familiar and all too real world that most of us live in.

Every choice you make has consequences. This is a sublime film about consequences. It's like Time Crimes meets Event Horizon. One of the most memorable and disturbing films I've ever seen.

As I was watching this I started to notice that the story arc seemed familiar. This 1956 film has all of the hallmarks of the 1960's James Bond films. The gangs, the double-crosses, the big schemes, the villain bosses, and the women. It's not a bad yarn.

The BBC have just shown this in the UK, and I'm so glad they did. It is right up there with The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Detectorists, Peep Show and This Country.

The writing is exceptional, but it works so well because of the actors. Their timing, delivery and expressions are perfect. These people are real. You care about them, and that's what makes great comedy work. Can we have some more series, please?

This is definitely a slow-burner but, wow, does it get good! I wasn't sure whether I'd stick with this after episode 1, but I did and I'm really glad. It is not what it initially seems to be. As the series goes on you get to know every character really well and find out why they are as they are. Each person is so realistically developed as it progresses. They actually speak and act like real people. That is so rare, and you start to really care about all of them. There are no villains or heroes, just like in true life, only people struggling to survive and to make sense of what sometimes seems like a pointless and ridiculous world. It is hysterically funny in places and genuinely moving too. The acting, writing and direction are second to none.