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No selfie sticks,
please
BOYD’STVLAND
All the week’s news, views and erm, things to amuse from Boyd Hilton, heat’s King of Telly TM
#MeToo
MYTOP3
SHOWSONTV
TheGoes
WrongShow
The hilarious am-dram
gang finish their series
with a family saga of lust
and betrayal set in the MY VERDICT ON…
American Deep South.
BBC1, Friday, 8.30pm
Curb Your
#80 Enthusiasm
fIjusttoldyouthebaldfactsaboutthenew careless, smug, petty, self-absorbed, privileged and
WhiteHouseFarm seasonofLarryDavid’slegendarycomedy entirely selfish. The moment in the premiere when
Thepoliceareforced I Curb Your Enthusiasm, I’d have to mention he spots a young couple with a selfie stick, grabs
to question everything thatitdeals with the #MeToo movement, as Larry it from them and snaps it in half across his knee,
they initially thought about isaccused of inappropriate activity with various before continuing to blithely stroll down the street
the case in the next women, while his best friend and manager Jeff is a brilliantly startling and hilarious summary of
instalment of the riveting constantly gets mistaken for Harvey Weinstein. what Larry is like. He’s the man for whom social
true-crime drama. You’dbe fully within your rights to regard the norms do not apply, and in this first new episode
ITV, Wednesday, 9pm ideaof this old (bald) white guy mansplaining for three years, he trashes those norms relentlessly
#MeToo as massively distasteful. And yet, when from start to finish. He lectures a pregnant woman
youwatch the series opener, which airs this week about doing too much exercise, wipes his glasses
onSky’s new Comedy channel, it’s clear that on his female assistant’s shirt, and dons a Trump
eventhough Larry does somehow end up in an “Make America Great Again” cap, so he can get
accidental groping situation, the show is not in out of a lunch date. It would be weird if Larry
anyway condoning the kind of behaviour that didn’t get embroiled in his own inappropriate
the#MeToo movement has rightly exposed. behaviour controversy. It’s what he has been
Thisis more a case of Larry being Larry i.e. doing for ten seasons to glorious comedic effect.
TheOutsider
CynthiaErivoisamazing as
eccentric investigator Holly Daniel Radcliffe plays an angel
Gibney, who’s hunting for IF YOU LIKE… responsible for dealing with human
clues connected to the GOOD OMENS beings’ prayers in this intriguing
mystifying Dayton case. THEN TRY… US anthology series based on
MIRACLE
Sky Atlantic/NOW TV, WORKERS stories by humorist Simon Rich.
Monday, 9pm Sky Comedy, Monday, 9pm
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