Inventing Anna, Netflix review - fake heiress saga outstays its welcome

★★ INVENTING ANNA, NETFLIX Fake heiress saga outstays its welcome

Rambling dramatisation of the Anna Delvey story never finds its focus

Con artists in film or TV need to be clever, charming, mysterious or at least entertaining (for instance Leo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can or Michelle Dockery in the much-underrated Good Behaviour). Bafflingly, Anna Delvey, the notorious fake heiress whose story has been fictionalised by Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland company in Inventing Anna (Netflix), is none of these things.

The Teacher, Channel 5 review - inappropriate behaviour in the school environment

★★ THE TEACHER, CHANNEL 5 Sheridan Smith's masterclass in the art of falling apart

Sheridan Smith's masterclass in the art of falling apart

Having had her own problems with alcohol and anxiety, Sheridan Smith no doubt felt some kinship with Jenna Garvey, the central character she plays in The Teacher. Evidently a talented educator who inspires loyalty and enthusiasm in her pupils, Jenna is also partial to a hectic night’s clubbing fuelled by reckless quantities of drink.

Ozark, Series 4 Part 1, Netflix review - the Macbeths of the southern lakes in even deeper waters

★★★★★ OZARK, SERIES 4, NETFLIX Marty and Wendy Byrde in even deeper waters

Marty and Wendy Byrde continue to thicken the swamp

They’re back, the Lord and Lady Macbeth of the Ozark District, otherwise sleek-seeming middle class Chicagoans Marty and Wendy Byrde. And thanks to the super-subtle performances of Jason Bateman and Laura Linney, we hate them more than ever – except when they’re up against worse.

David Suchet - Poirot And More, A Retrospective, Harold Pinter Theatre review - the much-loved actor looks back

★★★ DAVID SUCHET - POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE The much-loved actor looks back

Sir David Suchet takes us from school days to sleuth days

In the 80s, An Audience With... gave a television studio to an actor who then recounted stories culled from a life in entertainment. The best subjects were the natural raconteurs with plenty to say - Billy Connolly, Barry Humphries, the incomparable Kenneth Williams - and it's a testament to the format's longevity that Adele did one as recently as November.

The Girl Before, BBC One review - high-tech dream home contains many a heartache

★★★ THE GIRL BEFORE, BBC ONE High-tech dream home contains many a heartache

Compulsion, obsession, deception and confusion

Would you be willing to play the guinea pig in a designer-superhome created by a deranged architect? That is one question posed by this four-part drama (adapted by JP Delaney from his own novel), a kind of haunted house mystery underpinned by the damaged psychological states of its protagonists.

Landscapers, Sky Atlantic review - Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as a pair of convicted killers

★★★ LANDSCAPERS, SKY ATLANTIC Is post-modern jokiness suitable for real-life murder mystery?

Is post-modern jokiness suitable for this real-life murder mystery?

In 2014, Susan and Christopher Edwards were jailed for a minimum of 25 years for the killing of Susan’s parents, William and Patricia Wycherley. They’d been shot dead in 1998, and lay buried in their garden at 2 Blenheim Close, Mansfield for 15 years.

You Don't Know Me, BBC One review - true love meets inner-city crime wave

★★★ YOU DON'T KNOW ME, BBC ONE True love meets inner-city crime wave

Adaptation of Imran Mahmood's novel is strongly cast but slightly preposterous

I sympathised with the prosecuting barrister when she put it to the court that the accused, a man called Hero (Samuel Adewunmi), was “using his closing speech to construct a work of fiction”.