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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | TV tonight: the Winter Olympics are here | | by Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier and Simon Wardell Feb 4, 2022 | | Clare Balding kicks off the daily Games roundup with the Beijing opening ceremony. Plus, Uma Thurman joins Graham Norton. Here’s what to watch tonight Continue reading... | | | | | Suspicion review – blink and you'll miss Uma Thurman in this kidnap thriller | | by Lucy Mangan Feb 4, 2022 | | Why did a fake member of the royal family stuff a student into a suitcase? Could four unconnected Brits be to blame? And how did Thurman get so much press for such a tiny cameo? Generally speaking, I’m a fan of what we might call the unlocked room mystery. The kind where someone is murdered or otherwise indisposed and we are then introduced to a wide variety of characters who may or may not have something to do with it or each other. Then all you have to do is wait patiently for the doughty police officers in charge to sniff out any red herrings and present you with the individual or web responsible. But ya gotta keep things tight and urgent if you’re going to pull off this kind of caper. The latest, Suspicion (Apple+ TV), is a loose, baggy thing that only begins to approach the necessary slickness a good quarter of the way through its eight-episode run. Continue reading... | | | | | Best podcasts of the week: a fan-pleasing nostalgia-fest from the New Girl cast | | by Alexi Duggins Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier Feb 4, 2022 | | Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris reunite to reminisce about their Emmy-nominated show. Plus: top actors read the hilarious uncommissioned scripts of talented female writers Welcome to Our Show
It’s official: “millennial TV show rewatches with the original cast” is the podcast genre du jour. We’ve had The OC, Scrubs and Sex and the City – now it’s time for Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone, and Lamorne Morris to reminiscence over every minute detail that went into the making of Emmy-nominated New Girl. With seven seasons to revisit, this is one for Deschanel fans in search of a weekly hit of nostalgia to plug into. Hollie Richardson Continue reading... | | | | | 'A regressive, embarrassing disappointment': how And Just Like That ruined Sex and the City | | by Lucy Mangan Feb 4, 2022 | | The final episode of the sequel did nothing to redeem it. It was bafflingly tone-deaf, cringe-makingly crass and seemingly written by people who had never heard of the original That sound you can hear – that faint but persistent chuckle – is Kim Cattrall laughing. The actor was the only one of the original Sex and the City cast to decline to join And Just Like That …, the sequel to the much-loved, era-defining show. The rest of them stayed, and suffered. But at least they were getting paid. Viewers – if they did stay, which many of us did out of a potent blend of desperate hope that things would improve, and fascinated horror as they did not – had no such solace. The end of the 10-episode run has now been reached, with the finale refusing to redeem anything that had gone before. It could have, should have, been great. The idea of best friends Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda returning to navigate the complexities of female life and friendship in their 50s – a rare televisual sight – was a fine one (even if Cattrall’s Samantha would be missed). New writers and characters were brought in to address the glaring whiteness and heteronormativity of the original. Michael Patrick King was in charge, as he had effectively been for much of Sex and the City. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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