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Lucy Mangan

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Lucy Mangan is the Guardian TV critic and author of Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives

June 2026

  • Alice and Steve sit on a wall by a river, talking and smiling

    TV review
    Alice and Steve review – Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker’s icky comedy is dated and wrong

  • Javier Bardem as Max Cady in Cape Fear

    TV review
    Cape Fear review – Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s immaculate update is a wild, wild ride

  • Jamie and Rebekah Vardy sit on a blue scooter with pink luggage

    TV review
    The Vardys review – very bad, very boring and devastating for Wagatha Christie fans

  • Three young people stand on a city sidewalk looking upward, dressed in business and casual attire

    TV review
    Not Suitable for Work review – Mindy Kaling tries to make the new Friends … and utterly fails

May 2026

  • David Morrissey and Alan Cumming stand face to face at an open doorway with colorful stained glass above

    TV review
    Tip Toe review – David Morrissey is magnificent in Russell T Davies’s brutal new drama

  • A woman with a formal haircut looks serious while standing against a tiled wall.

    TV review
    Star City review – Anna Maxwell Martin is terrifying in a fascinating space race thriller

  • Nicolas Cage wearing black clothes and trilby and a face mask with spider-like eyes

    TV review
    Spider-Noir review – Nicolas Cage’s stylish take on the superhero as a 1940s detective is huge fun

  • A man sitting in a chesterfield armchair wearing a blue and white striped jumper

    TV review
    Untold UK: Vinnie Jones review – this chaotic biopic is an unexpected amount of fun

  • TV review
    Two Weeks in August review – Jessica Raine is extraordinary in this exquisite look at a holiday from hell

  • TV review
    Ponies review – Emilia Clarke’s joyful 70s spy thriller shouldn’t work … but it really does

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    The Boroughs review – this witty, star-packed monster show could have been made by Spielberg

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    Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed review – this totally bingeable thriller will glue you to your seat

  • TV review
    Falling review – Jack Thorne’s religious romance is a god-awful mess

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    The Dark Side of Married at First Sight review – there is enough awful detail here to fuel 1,000 more exposés

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    Off Campus review – hot fun for fans of bums, boobs, hockey and Heated Rivalry

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    Wrestling With Trump review – the president gets an almighty smackdown!

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    Believe Me review – this punchy, intelligent drama is a role model for other TV shows

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    Legends review – Steve Coogan takes on Britain’s biggest drug gang

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    Number One Fan review – four hours of guaranteed, preposterous fun

April 2026

  • A man and a woman in dark clothes standing side by side in a gloomy room - viewed from waist up

    TV review
    Prisoner review – Kapow! Boom! Shooty-shooty! What stupid fun this is

    Tahar Rahim and Izuka Hoyle are the prison guard and contract killer handcuffed together and on the run from a super evil crime syndicate. Cor, it’s silly stuff
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