The Sunday Times - UK (2022-02-13

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THE BEST TV FROM NETFLIX AND BEYOND... SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY

BBC 100 (Radio 3, from

11am/BBC Sounds)

The celebration of the BBC’s

centenary continues this

weekend with a series of live

performances from the BBC

Orchestra and Choirs and the

Ulster Orchestra, showcasing

talent from across Britain. The

majority of the groups have

their origins in the 1920s and

were founded to bring classical

music to radio audiences.

Today’s performances

include the BBC Singers’

world premiere of Howard

Goodall’s Unconditional Love

and the Ulster Orchestra

with the work of composers

from Northern Ireland.

Yesterday’s programme (BBC

Sounds) includes the BBC

Concert Orchestra performing

The Lark Ascending and

the BBC Philharmonic’s

premiere of Marionettes,

composed by Aziza Sadikova.

Clair Woodward

Dream Horse (Sky Cinema

Premiere, 8pm)

From a film-making point

of view, there are no wild

gambles in this tale of

ordinary folk banding together

to buy a racehorse. Although

based on a true story, Euros

Lyn’s movie is much like other

British feelgood films that

celebrate plucky teamwork.

Safe bets have their own

appeal, however, and the

film romps home by giving

a cheerful script to a trusty

cast (led by Toni Collette and

Damian Lewis, both gamely

doing Welsh accents). We are

invited to share in the joy the

characters feel when their

horse does well. (2020)

The Innocents

(TPTV, 11.50pm)

This superior spinechiller

(based on Henry James’s The

Turn of the Screw) captures the

oppressive, often terrifying

perceptions of a governess

(Deborah Kerr) who comes

to believe her young charges

are being corrupted by ghosts.

Dir: Jack Clayton (1961) B/W

Edward Porter

Atlantic greys (BBC2, 8pm) Horse sense: Collette (SCP, 8pm)

FILM CHOICE

ON DEMAND

The Promise (BBC iPlayer)

Already a huge hit in France,

this new six-part thriller from

Spiral writers Gaëlle Bellan

and Anne Landois begins, as

so many of these things do,

with a missing child and a

loose-cannon detective, Pierre

(the brilliantly crumpled

Olivier Marchal). Where it

Quarry (Sky/Now)

Set in early 1970s Memphis,

this hardboiled tale of a

Vietnam vet turned hitman,

Mac (Logan Marshall-Green),

ran for just one perfect season.

It is all languorous long takes,

sunlit nihilism and a roll-call

of eccentrics, including Peter

Mullan as Mac’s mysterious

employer, and Damon

Herriman as a charming, gay

professional assassin.

Andrew Male

Suspicion (Apple TV+)

This new drama “stars” Uma

Thurman as a dangerously

powerful businesswoman

whose son is kidnapped.

Sadly, the star is left to glower

from New York office windows

while the story focuses on the

four British suspects arrested

for the crime. Thrilling, silly

and narratively chaotic, it is

a show salvaged by a handful

of committed performances

from its supporting cast.

Spencer

(Buy as stream/download)

Camper than The Crown

(perhaps not intentionally),

Pablo Larrain’s feverish

imagined account of Princess

Diana at a royal gathering

in 1991 doesn’t have to be

taken seriously to be enjoyed.

Certainly, though, Kristen

Stewart deserves her Oscar

nomination. The character

she creates is intriguing in

her own right. (2021) EP

goes from there is utterly

beguiling, flashing forward

20 years to a present-day in

which Pierre’s daughter, Sarah

(Sofia Essaïdi), is now the

obsessive cop with a score

to settle. Using the police

procedural to explore ideas

of obsession, fate, family and

the psychologies of hunter

and hunted, this is top-tier

detective TV that will fill a

nice Spiral-shaped hole in

your viewing schedule.

Under the influencers: Theroux examines far-right ideologists in the USA (BBC2, 9pm)

Louis Theroux’s Forbidden

America (BBC2, 9pm)

Louis Theroux plays the

disappointed “centrist dad”

to the young team of the

American far right —

increasingly mainstream

characters who meet on

Fortnite (“the new golf

course”), stick on a suit and

head downstairs to mum’s

basement to broadcast to

thousands of like-minded

incels. “Racism’s the new

rock’n’roll,” says Nick J

Fuentes, who describes

himself as an “American

nationalist” and claims to

pocket $4,000 per show.

There’s documentary tension

between shining a light and

conferring legitimacy but, if

anything, Theroux is running

late, and these young men are

at the forefront of a culture

already way ahead of him.

See feature on page 10.

Helen Stewart

The Truth Will Out (C4,

11.30pm; then Walter

Presents on All4)

The start of the Swedish crime

drama’s second run means

the return of a glum cop

who makes other depressive

detectives appear positively

jolly. When not moaning

about his new office and the

cases he is assigned, Peter

(Robert Gustafsson) spends

the opener brooding over

his brother’s death — until

a murder occurs that he

suspects is linked to it. As

for his team, Caijsa (Louise

Peterhoff ) is pregnant and

preoccupied, while Jorma

(Christopher Wagelin) has left

but looks keen to rejoin. This

squabbling cold-case squad

make even the misfits in New

Tricks seem harmonious.

John Dugdale

Winter Olympics (BBC1,

12.15pm; Scotland, 2.45pm)

Big stones are needed for most

winter sports, but especially in

curling, and today’s coverage

features Team GB’s men’s

match against Denmark.

Tonight, there’s the monobob

— not this season’s must-have

barnet but a new women’s

event where a single athlete

drives a bobsled.

Wonders Of The Celtic Deep

(BBC2, 8pm)

One grey report you don’t have

to wait for is the first episode

of this new four-part nature

documentary series, which

tracks Atlantic grey seals and

their young along the Welsh

coast. You would expect to see

seals there, plus guillemots

and dolphins; Wales’s own

version of Atlantis, less so.

Super Bowl LVI (SSME,

10pm/BBC1, 11.35pm)

Fans will wonder if this will

deliver as much drama as

the Cincinnati Bengals’ epic

comeback to defeat Kansas

City Chiefs and reach their

first Super Bowl since 1989.

The Los Angeles Rams have

the home stadium advantage,

but the underdogs are roaring.

Toby Earle

CRITICS’ CHOICE

Sounds of

the century