James Walton

Comedy returns

Plus: Richard Gere was lofty in BBC2's MotherFatherSo, and every line continues to be pitch-perfect in Channel 4's Derry Girls

issue 09 March 2019

BBC2’s MotherFatherSon announced its status as a classy thriller in the traditional way: by ensuring that for quite a long time we had no idea what was going on.

At first it looked as if the focus would be on a missing teenager whose phone we saw abandoned in the woods.

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