What we said: Ellie and Natasia achieves one of the most elusive goals in comedy: it rings true. Despite some sketches being unwaveringly niche, the duo’s writing and committed performances kept us hooked – and the neverending Saturday Kitchen applause skit had us on the floor. (BBC Three/iPlayer) Just when the sketch show seemed to be on its way out, Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White delivered a tremendous comedy treat. Photograph: Colin Hutton/BBC/Nit Television Read more 48 Ellie and NatasiaĪ rare joy … Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White. But the sport’s exclusivity is a symbol of a much larger class problem that continues to bedevil British society. Of course, trying to get a handful of state-school kids into cricket is not in itself a major blow for the levelling-up project. What we said: Field of Dreams allows the tensions between stardom and selfhood, and Flintoff’s own success and wider social concerns, to be dealt with in a satisfying way. By the end, it was perhaps the most life-affirming documentary of the year. In this affecting three-parter, the famed cricket player wanted to lift the lid on classism in the game – so he went back to his hometown of Preston to introduce a group of initially suspicious local teens to the closed-off sport. (BBC One/iPlayer) Cricket is still so dominated by the wealthy and privately educated. Read more 49 Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams What we said: Chloe is a fierce, fresh sort-of-murder-mystery as keenly scripted as it is paced, and whose many threads are held firmly together by an outstanding performance from Erin Doherty. But as it became clearer that she was doing this to find out what happened to her old school friend, Chloe, whose life seemed so perfect online, you started rooting for her to continue the charade and get to the bottom of it. “Stop!” you wanted to scream at the screen, sick with anxiety that she was about to be found out.
(BBC One/iPlayer) It was excruciating watching social-media obsessive Becky (a brilliant Erin Doherty) persist with a fake identity in order to escape her dowdy life and fit into a glossy, affluent crowd.
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