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Lucy Mangan

Lucy Mangan is a Guardian TV critic. Twitter: @LucyMangan

November 2024

  • Junior taskmasters Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak.

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    Junior Taskmaster review – they’ve messed with perfection … and it’s a triumph

    This child-based spinoff of the entertainment behemoth is hilarious, charming and hugely fun. Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak’s chemistry as hosts is spot on and the children so delightful the casting directors deserve awards
  • Film-maker Cullen Hoback reports in Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery.

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    Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery review – this frustrating documentary feels like a digital Agatha Christie tale

    There are so many deep questions to tackle about the crypto-currency, yet this programme launches into a wild goose chase after its founder. It’s impressively rigorous – but feels like a waste of time
  • Shaun Evans as John Sweeney and Anna Maxwell-Martin as Delia Balmer in Until I Kill You

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    Until I Kill You review – Anna Maxwell Martin delivers the best performance of her career

    This extraordinary portrait of Delia Balmer, who survived a relationship with the murderer John Sweeney, is that rarest of things – fearless TV that values viewers’ intelligence

October 2024

  • ‘Very good at putting people at their ease’ … Prince William in We Can End Homelessness on ITV1.

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    Prince William: We Can End Homelessness review – is a royal really the right person for this job?

  • Project December user Christi Angel chatting with her deceased friend Cameroun in Storyville: Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – it’s impossible not to be horrified by this AI quest to bring the dead back to life

  • Donald Trump at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York; behind him are fans waving signs that say "Trump will fix it".

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    Trump: A Second Chance? review – why his rise, and his return, make total sense

  • Janine (Anita Dobson) as a blood-soaked zombie in Generation Z

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    Generation Z review – this fun zombie Brexit satire is like The Walking Dead’s oddest spin-off yet

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    Before review – Billy Crystal’s move into horror is brilliant

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    Doctor Odyssey review – Joshua Jackson’s bananas cruise-ship melodrama is so bad it’s genius

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    The Franchise review – Armando Iannucci’s superhero satire is saved only by a standout star

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    Love Cheats review – these depressing scam tales make you long for the apocalypse

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    Rivals review – even the naked tennis scene is a triumph

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    I Cut Off His Penis: The Truth Behind the Headlines review – shocking cases

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    Mr Loverman review – magnificent TV that will tear your heart open

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    Hauntings review – there is not a single spark of wit to this meaningless nonsense

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    Disclaimer review – only Cate Blanchett could deal with a script this abominable

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    Sweetpea review – Ella Purnell’s deathly dull serial killer show reeks of cowardly decision-making

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    Curfew review – are we expected to believe that violence against women only happens at night?

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    Chimp Crazy review – like Tiger King for apes … but way more bleak

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    Charlie Cooper’s Myth Country review – proof that the co-creator of This Country is a genius

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