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Mo Gilligan’s fast food Netflix documentary chickens out

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By Benji Wilson Verified
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The comedian Mo Gilligan’s first foray into documentary is a tridactyl, chicken-foot-shaped assault on fried chicken: Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy (Netflix). Mo loves his chicken, chicken shop culture is everywhere on social media and the big American chains are taking over Britain. “What’s not to like?”, asks Mo… with the inevitable answer: “Almost everything.” Gilligan’s approach is a mash-up of several documentary styles.
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Ted Lasso-mania has finally gone too far

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By Benji Wilson Verified
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At the half-time show for this year's World Cup an audience in the billions watched Ted Lasso, a fake American football coach played by the actor Jason Sudeikis, give the musician Justin Bieber a pep talk. (He told him to “Beliebe” before he went on stage). At this point Lasso-mania had gone so far beyond the merits or otherwise of the Apple TV comedy , that it rendered a review of a new series of that comedy largely moot.
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Nerd humour is clever but irritating – as this Big Bang Theory spin-off shows

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By Benji Wilson Verified
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A spin-off from the long-running US sitcom The Big Bang Theory , the Stuart in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe HBO Max ) is Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman), a diffident comic book store owner with panic in his eyes. There is plenty to panic about. Though we begin in his Pasadena shop familiar from the BBT, outside things are very different. Civilisation is in tatters and people are bartering for survival. There is a dimensional rift in the comic book store that Stuart uses as a rubbish bin.
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