Rachel Cooke
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Douglas Is Cancelled review
Steven Moffat's delicious satire is unafraid to take aim at youthful snowflakes and puritans.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 26th June 2024Queenie review
Queenie is a crude parody of real women.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 10th June 2024The Lovers review
Johnny Flynn is a joy to watch in this newsroom comedy from Sky Atlantic.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 6th September 2023The Power Of Parker captures the particular quirks of Nineties northern England
Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman's new series is comic perfection - but perhaps not everyone will find it funny.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 26th July 2023Bridget Christie's The Change and the rise of menopause media
I'd take Christie's dark humour over Davina McCall's washboard stomach any day. But let's stop pretending the topic is "taboo".
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 21st June 2023The Cockfields review
I was hysterical with laughter watching this Diane Morgan-starring series from David Earl and Joe Wilkinson.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 22nd March 2023Everyone Else Burns attempts "edgy" comedy - but ends up predictable
Like so many supposedly funny shows just lately, this sitcom about an extreme Christian sect isn't funny enough.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 23rd January 2023Am I Being Unreasonable? is dark, strange comedy
Daisy May Cooper's follow-up to This Country is part Julia Davis, part Motherland - with the odd flash of genius.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 24th October 2022Together is cheap and obvious pandemic piggybacking
In this tedious and excruciating film, Sharon Horgan and James McAvoy play a warring couple trapped together in lockdown.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 16th June 2021The Pursuit Of Love is bold, barmy and never boring
Her adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel features subtitles, freeze-frames and loud blasts of T Rex.
Rachel Cooke, The New Statesman, 10th May 2021