‘There’s a reason for everything – even the goats’: Adam Scott on the eerie genius of Severance
With Mark, the microchipped office drone, the star has put ‘befuddled beta males’ behind him. He reveals why shooting during Covid fed the show’s strangeness – but still can’t explain the goats
February 2022
TV review
Severance review – Ben Stiller’s workplace fantasy might make your mind explode
Adam Scott, Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette star in an idiosyncratic, intelligent comedy-drama where workers’ brains are separated into work and home halves
December 2015
Sleeping With Other People review – watchable modern homage to When Harry Met Sally
This yarn about two former lovers who bump into each other at a sex addiction clinic is entertaining in parts, but not as edgy as it thinks – and no match for the genre greats it is aping
Krampus – video review
Our film critics review Krampus, a teen horror film about an anti-Santa who arrives to ruin Christmas and send all revellers to hell
Krampus review – knowingly nasty festive horror
It’s not exactly Gremlins quality, but this seasonal frightener does have a good dash of that film’s anarchic spirit
June 2015
The Overnight review – the boldest swingers in town
When an LA couple agree to join another pair on a ‘playdate’, things go from empowering to embarrassing
The Overnight review – silly swinging fun
Taylor Schilling, Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman dabble in the shallow end of sexual manners in this disposable but diverting comedy
The Overnight: clips from Jason Schwartzman's swinging new comedy
Watch two clips from Patrick Brice's comedy about the seduction of a couple of nervous new parents by their swanky LA neighbours
February 2015
Parks and Recreation review – a perfectly pitched finale
While many shows have tried to confound fans’ expectations, the final episode, which showed the characters’ futures, played to sweet and uncynical type
January 2015
TV and radio blog
Farewell to Parks and Recreation - the little sitcom that could
As the NBC sitcom starts its final season tonight, Gwilym Mumford looks back on the unloved sitcom that launched the careers of some of US comedy’s top stars
April 2014
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