Shardlake review – murderous monks ignite this magnificent CJ Sansom story
Sean Bean gloriously channels his inner-Cromwell in this tale of a loner lawyer investigating a gruesome decapitation at a Tudor monastery. It’s mean, moody – and the perfect tribute to its author who died this week
April 2024
The watcher
Shardlake: murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this
The seven best shows to stream this week
A Man in Full to Shardlake: the seven best shows to stream this week
August 2022
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Red Rose; Marriage; Bad Sisters; The Sky at Night
TV review
Marriage review – Sean Bean and Nicola Walker are pitch perfect
Sean Bean: ‘I used to read scripts from the end to see if I was still in them’
Notebook
Lewis Hamilton, the world’s fastest driver, is right, motoring’s no fun any more
Rebecca Nicholson
‘You can’t just let it flow’: Emma Thompson defends intimacy coordinators
West Side Story star Rachel Zegler defends intimacy coordinators after Sean Bean criticism
‘Laughing at farts is the bedrock of a good relationship’ – the writer of Marriage shares his wisdom
May 2022
It’s A Sin to Mare of Easttown: who will win the 2022 TV Bafta awards – and who really deserves to?
This might be one of the most complicated years ever for choosing the victors in the UK’s glitziest television awards. But we’re trying anyway! Here are our picks of who should (and who will) win
December 2021
2021 in TV
Sean Bean on Time, makeup and his trans role: ‘If I did it today, there’d be an uproar’
2021 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2021, No 7: Time
June 2021
‘There’s nothing here I did not see inside’ – a former HMP inmate on Time
Jimmy McGovern’s hard-hitting drama is a brutally honest portrayal of a failed public service and gets everything right about prison life – minus the tedium
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Time; Fred and Rose West; Lupin; Statue Wars – review
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham excel in a grim prison drama, and the mayor of Bristol takes centre stage in a documentary about the city’s 2020 BLM protests.
Will it take a BBC drama to finally start a rational debate about Britain’s prisons?
Owen Jones
TV review
Time review – Sean Bean and Stephen Graham astound in enraging prison drama
TV tonight
TV tonight: Sean Bean and Stephen Graham tackle life inside
May 2021
Hear me out
Hear me out: why Equilibrium isn’t a bad movie
The latest in our series of writers defending loathed films is a plea to reconsider 2002’s dour Christian Bale-starring dystopian action thriller
The director’s thrillingly ingenious tale of mind-invasion technology, starring Andrea Riseborough, barrels towards the most outrageous final twist imaginable
