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Sep 28, 2022 · This England on Sky review: Michael Winterbottom’s drama is splendid television, history distilled on screen. A methodically damning drama about the government’s response to the Covid crisis....
This England – Season 1, Episode 5. A jogger sees Cummings and his family in Durham as more and more people fall ill and care homes and hospitals struggle to cope with the cases; at the same ...
- Michael Winterbottom
- September 28, 2022
- Kenneth Branagh
Sep 29, 2022 · This England review: Sky’s Covid drama should be avoided like the plague Kenneth Branagh gives a distracting, prosthesis-heavy portrayal of Boris Johnson in this fatally misjudged true life ...
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- Nick Hilton
Oct 31, 2023 · Michael Winterbottom’s brutal tale of Boris Johnson’s disastrous Covid policy in This England is not quite the stuff of Shakespeare or classic tragedy, but Kenneth Branagh’s performance is impressive.
- Janet Mullany
The dodgy thatch worn by Kenneth Branagh is an early portent of doom. This six-part political drama is a dud. Despite Kenneth Branagh’s brilliant transformation into Boris Johnson, This England...
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- Kenneth Branagh
- Michael Winterbottom
- September 28, 2022
Oct 1, 2022 · This England: a composite portrait of pandemic-era Britain. Depicting a needy populace being governed by overconfident mediocrities, Michael Winterbottom’s vision of Britain under Covid-19 will feel, to many, like picking away at a still-fresh wound.
Sep 28, 2022 · Blended with real news footage, it’s an impressionistic sense of the impending chaos that swept the UK in early 2020. And be warned: with shots of people suffering on ventilators, it’s also ...
