CJ O'Grady

Welcome back Sally Wainwright! This series is absolutely brilliant. I just binged the whole thing on iPlayer and am now bereft having got fully invested in these characters and their struggles, traumas and triumphs. Wainwright mixes drama with a dark humour beautifully, with superb performances from the whole cast, especially Rosalie Craig and Joanna Scanlon. Throw in some current themes like toxic police officers, elderly care costs and a dash of historic child abuse. Watch to the end for an unexpected cameo hinting at a second series… fingers crossed! Not easy viewing with some really dark themes but some joyous uplifting moments too.

Among the many 9/11 docs, this is one of the best. No voice over, just the people who were there and lots of archival footage telling the story of this horrific and never to be forgotten day. Only problem is how jarring ad breaks are in documentaries like this.

Gripping! But no way would I want to live in that sterile box of a house (plus I’d break the messiness rule by the first evening!)

Really enjoyed this. Accessible refugee story for the Netflix masses!

Brilliant! Really enjoyed this classy chess drama. Taylor-Joy is amazing

So disappointing how any movie that has a feminist agenda gets 1 starred all the time… For me, this was enormous fun and dared to suggest the world is still full of inequality. It did it with verve and humour and colour and I loved it!

I like Nolan, I’m fascinated by the Oppenheimer/Manhattan project story. Love the cast… but this film was a disappointment. The movie is just too long and has too many scenes of men with agendas talking. The final hour is pretty much a melange of legal cases/ investigations and just drags! It is very much an examination of Oppenheimer and the men plotting against him while I was hoping for more about the political and scientific journey. Great actors impress, Pugh and Blunt are the only female roles of note and get a couple of scenes but did we really need that much of Pugh’s breasts? Three hours is too long for a story that could have been done in two.