Hellbound, Netflix review - supernatural assassins usher in an age of terror

★★★★ HELLBOUND, NETFLIX REVIEW Nightmare alternative reality from director Yeon Sang-ho

Nightmare alternative reality from director Yeon Sang-ho

Netflix is sometimes criticised for bringing too much of everything to its online feast, but the way it’s opening up previously under-exposed territories is becoming seriously impressive. Suddenly, South Korea is beginning to look like a powerhouse in the making, with consecutive big ratings hits with Squid Game and now Hellbound.

The Beatles: Get Back, Disney+ review - 1969 revisited in Peter Jackson's three-part documentary

★★★ THE BEATLES: GET BACK, DISNEY+ 1969 revisited in Peter Jackson's three-part documentary

Eight hours of vintage Fab Four footage may be a trifle excessive

A caption tells us that while filming the Beatles at Twickenham Film Studios in January 1969 for a planned TV broadcast, director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and his crew amassed 60 hours of film and 150 hours of audio recordings. Some of it was seen in the 1970 film Let It Be, but the bulk of it has remained locked in the vaults ever since. Until now.

Death of England: Face to Face, National Theatre at Home review - anti-racist trilogy ends with a bang

★★★★★ DEATH OF ENGLAND: FACE TO FACE, NATIONAL THEATRE AT HOME Anti-racist trilogy ends with a bang

Roy Williams and Clint Dyer bring their monologue sequence to a triumphant conclusion

One of the absolute highpoints of new writing in the past couple of years has been the Death of England trilogy. Written by Roy Williams and Clint Dyer, these three brilliant monologues have not only explored vital questions of race and racism, identity and belonging, but have also provided a record of theatre-going before, during and after the pandemic lockdown.

Dopesick, Disney+ review - the harrowing inside story of America's OxyContin scandal

★★★★ DOPESICK, DISNEY+ How corporate greed rode roughshod over regulatory oversight

How corporate greed rode roughshod over regulatory oversight

“Drug companies are supposed to be honest,” says a lady from the Department of Justice, explaining why the US Food and Drug Administration had been treating the pharmaceutical industry with a light, indeed barely detectable, regulatory touch.

Showtrial, BBC One review - drama a cut above the rest

★★★★ SHOWTRIAL, BBC ONE Drama a cut above the rest - sharp script fuels twisty murder mystery

A sharp script fuels this twisty murder mystery

This latest offering from the ubiquitous World Productions (creators of Line of Duty, the farcical but strangely popular Vigil, Bodyguard etc etc) is a whodunnit, a howdunnit and a whydunnit, as it explores the mysterious disappearance and death of university student Hannah Ellis.

Dalgliesh, Channel 5 review - doleful detective fails to fire on all cylinders

★★ DALGLIESH, CHANNEL 5 Doleful detective fails to fire on all cylinders

Bertie Carvel's Adam Dalgliesh is decent but dull

Treading in the footsteps of Roy Marsden and Martin Shaw, Bertie Carvel is a making a decent (albeit soporific) stab at embodying P D James’s introspective detective Adam Dalgliesh, though you have to wonder if he’s getting the help he needs from Channel 5.

Temple, Series 2, Sky Max review - more calamitous adventures of rogue surgeon Daniel Milton

★★★ TEMPLE, SERIES 2, SKY MAX Berserk medical thriller held together by Mark Strong

Berserk medical thriller held together by a commanding Mark Strong

It’s difficult to know how seriously to take Temple, Sky Max’s outlandish medical thriller about surgeon Dr Daniel Milton and his gothicky secret clinic, hidden under Temple tube station in London.

Invasion, Apple TV+ review - sci-fi epic or a pile of space junk?

Grandiose space-invader series is dreary and uninvolving

Conceived on a global scale to depict the enormity of an alien menace from outer space, Apple's new series Invasion has grand ambitions, but crash-lands like a pile of space junk. After a few hours of this, waiting for something to happen, you’ll be yearning for a trawl through Netflix or Walter Presents.

All Creatures Great and Small, Series 2, Channel 5 review - familiar formula continues to satisfy

★★★★ ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, SERIES 2, CHANNEL 5 More gentle dramas in the Dales as World War Two looms

More gentle dramas in the Dales as World War Two looms

Channel 5’ s decision to remake James Herriot’s much-loved Yorkshire vet stories was an inspired one, and this second series has effortlessly carried on the mood of gentle observation, nostalgia and slapstick comedy amid scintillating Yorkshire Dales scenery. A teeming cast of dogs, cats, horses, cows and chickens is permanently on call to provide fuel for the adventures of Herriot and the Farnon veterinary dynasty.