Miss Webb Reilly

Perhaps the book is better, I can't say because I haven't read it, but I found this TV series weirdly cloying. I assume Elizabeth is Autistic, she's certainly played as Autistic 101. The love affair was meant to be, what, sweet? Modern? It felt unconvincing to me. Is that what a man is supposed to do? He gives you a great opportunity to work in his lab, and in return you drive him out of it - and he just goes, tell me what I did that's so bad? Seriously, is this how we want our men to be? There's a difference between a man being sensitive to our boundaries and flinging himself under our steamrollers. Also, novels that go back in time to solve problems as they stood then - well, what are they for? If you want to tackle those problems, write novels about the problems as they are now. It's just too easy to solve the 1950s. I understand that the proposed highway that would bulldoze mainly black neighbourhoods was grafted on for the TV adaptation - talk about heavyhanded; and a touch of white saviour complex about it. I stopped watching somewhere during Episode 2. It could be that the book is more intelligent, funnier and less cloying than this TV adaptation. I hope so.

I found this surprisingly enjoyable. There was some great dialogue, some great acting (Michelle Keegan and Adheel Akhtar especially) and an ending I actually didn't see coming. That said, the just lazy implausibilities stacked up and irritated me. For instance - you cannot just walk into schools. UK schools have had tight security for a decade or two. You need to sign in and get a visitor pass before you can enter the school itself. Of course, that reality would have stopped the plot dead - no forcing the headmaster to tell you about the hazing (incidentally, how many people willingly broke the law on confidentiality for her? As if.) She'd have been sacked from her job for hijacking a helicopter training session to chase a car. Pulling down the coach's underwear would have had her arrested. That stuff was just lazy and did detract. I almost turned off a few times because of it - but I'm glad that I did see it through to the end.

Matt Lucas is a fabulous addition, with Noel Fielding playing his straight man (!), dashing off his own witticisms and revealing himself to be lovely to the contestants. Paul Hollywood knows his baking, can match Matt and Noel for a one-liner and never tries to upstage anyone, taking genuine delight in the triumphs of the bakers and the wit of Matt and Noel. But what is Prue Leith doing there? She's not witty, generous or insightful. Mary Berry was so much better

After 20 minutes of film-school-student metaphors and camera work, I couldn't watch any more. Worst thing I've seen in some time

This movie is so much better than I'd anticipated from the reviews, and I'm someone who gives up on most of the films I can be bothered trying to watch. I loved it and suspect it'll prove to be one of those films that in time are re-evaluated, and found to actually be rather special.

Fabulous acting, but if you've ever been up close - which I have - to addiction you'll know that it's much, much uglier than this.

Implausible set up, implausible characters, implausible plot. Stylistically irritating. I'm absolutely mystified by the rave reviews. I'm only giving it 2 stars because of the committed acting