‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 finale review: Episode 8 remains necessary viewing
A lot was riding on this final instalment of Broadchurch Season 3, from resolving the particular storyline at hand – the assault on Trish Winterman, the investigation into which has dominated the...
View ArticleLenny Henry criticises Ofcom for ‘fake diversity’ in British television
Sir Lenny Henry has hit out against the false diversity of British television, claiming that little has changed behind the camera despite an increase in front of it. Henry is an active campaigner for...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ preview: Writer Chris Chibnall introduces Season 3
Broadchurch returns to ITV later this month for a final season. David Tennant and Olivia Colman are back as DI Alec Hardy and DS Ellie Miller, this time investigating a serious sexual assault in the...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 1 was taut, focused and emotionally...
On the basis of last night’s episode, Broadchurch has gone beyond a mere crime drama serial to something gut-wrenching, humane and deeply empathetic, rivalling the moving portrayal of grief in its...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 2 maintains last week’s high quality
The second episode of Broadchurch 3 wastes no time in launching us into Hardy and Miller’s investigation into the brutal rape of Trish Winterman we saw reported to the police in last week’s premiere....
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 3 explores toxic masculinity
If there’s a defining theme that seems to run through Broadchurch 3, but is particularly prominent in this third episode, it’s toxic masculinity. As Hardy says, “it makes me ashamed to be a man”. Chris...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 4 is confident, mostly elegant...
This isn’t a particularly Trish-centric episode of Broadchurch, but she is still far and away the best thing about it; if Julie Hesmondhalgh isn’t showered with gongs come award season, it’ll be...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 5 is packed full of drama
At the end of last week’s episode, viewers saw Laura Benson (Kelly Gough) coming forward to inform the police that she was assaulted two years ago in a similar manner to Trish. Gough does a good job...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Episode 6 is Season 3’s strongest so far
This week’s Broadchurch episode, the strongest so far, is all about people trying to escape the prisons they carry with them – and often finding that they can’t. While Lenny Henry’s Ed Burnett spends...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 7 lacks the punch of last week’s ep
The fact that Mark Latimer turns out to be alive after all, after the high drama ending of last week… isn’t actually a disappointment, somewhat to my surprise. Plenty of suicide plans don’t come off,...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 finale review: Episode 8 remains necessary viewing
A lot was riding on this final instalment of Broadchurch Season 3, from resolving the particular storyline at hand – the assault on Trish Winterman, the investigation into which has dominated the...
View ArticleLenny Henry criticises Ofcom for ‘fake diversity’ in British television
Sir Lenny Henry has hit out against the false diversity of British television, claiming that little has changed behind the camera despite an increase in front of it. Henry is an active campaigner for...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 1 was taut, focused and emotionally...
On the basis of last night’s episode, Broadchurch has gone beyond a mere crime drama serial to something gut-wrenching, humane and deeply empathetic, rivalling the moving portrayal of grief in its...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 2 maintains last week’s high quality
The second episode of Broadchurch 3 wastes no time in launching us into Hardy and Miller’s investigation into the brutal rape of Trish Winterman we saw reported to the police in last week’s premiere....
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 3 explores toxic masculinity
If there’s a defining theme that seems to run through Broadchurch 3, but is particularly prominent in this third episode, it’s toxic masculinity. As Hardy says, “it makes me ashamed to be a man”. Chris...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 4 is confident, mostly elegant...
This isn’t a particularly Trish-centric episode of Broadchurch, but she is still far and away the best thing about it; if Julie Hesmondhalgh isn’t showered with gongs come award season, it’ll be...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 5 is packed full of drama
At the end of last week’s episode, viewers saw Laura Benson (Kelly Gough) coming forward to inform the police that she was assaulted two years ago in a similar manner to Trish. Gough does a good job...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Episode 6 is Season 3’s strongest so far
This week’s Broadchurch episode, the strongest so far, is all about people trying to escape the prisons they carry with them – and often finding that they can’t. While Lenny Henry’s Ed Burnett spends...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ review: Season 3 Episode 7 lacks the punch of last week’s ep
The fact that Mark Latimer turns out to be alive after all, after the high drama ending of last week… isn’t actually a disappointment, somewhat to my surprise. Plenty of suicide plans don’t come off,...
View Article‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 finale review: Episode 8 remains necessary viewing
A lot was riding on this final instalment of Broadchurch Season 3, from resolving the particular storyline at hand – the assault on Trish Winterman, the investigation into which has dominated the...
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