Books & arts
4 June 2025
Two American drama series tip-toe around the country’s plight
Books & arts
23 May 2025
The American president’s film and TV tariff plan has its genesis as far back as the 1940s
Books & arts
27 February 2025
Thirty-five years later, Media Watch needs an overhaul
Books & arts
25 November 2024
SBS’s The Jury: Death on the Staircase goes further than most courtroom experiments, and the results are all the more interesting
Books & arts
22 November 2024
The Day of the Jackal and The Diplomat reviewed
Books & arts
11 November 2024
TV’s So Long Marianne ventures into an ethical minefield
Books & arts
5 August 2024
Have we reached “Peak Djokovic”?
Books & arts
18 July 2024
A British writer and a British star have produced a quintessential story rooted in an American TV tradition
Books & arts
9 July 2024
Two institutions have joined forces to open up Australian history using storied objects
Books & arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & arts
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
International
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
International
9 February 2024
Will burgeoning cricket franchises kill the institutions they rely on?
Books & arts
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & arts
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
Books & arts
2 October 2023
Like the desks they sit behind, newsreaders have grown in stature as the medium has evolved
Books & arts
24 August 2023
In its attempt to be light-hearted, Kitchen Cabinet has steered into dangerous waters
Books & arts
27 July 2023
The physicist’s own words provide a commentary on conflicting depictions
International
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
Books & arts
23 June 2023
Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & arts
30 May 2023
Succession’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & arts
19 May 2023
A new breed of advisers is helping bridge TV’s gap between reality and dramatisation
Books & arts
2 May 2023
What’s missing from Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night is as compelling as what’s on the screen
Books & arts
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Books & arts
12 April 2023
A provincial professor tries to cut through
Books & arts
1 March 2023
Quantity is trumping quality as services compete for viewers
Books & arts
24 January 2023
A fragment of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose has become a compelling psychological drama
Books & arts
20 December 2022
With holidays looming, our TV critic reviews three addictive series
Books & arts
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in The Wonder
Books & arts
25 October 2022
Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes?