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Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man is hard to watch. But does it have anything to say?

Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man is hard to watch. But does it have anything to say?

The acclaimed new drama from the creator of Baby Reindeer doesn’t ‘expose’ toxic masculinity so much as simply make a spectacle of it, writes Julia Raeside

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Celebrity Traitors is era-defining telly - because it knows that fame is the ultimate deceit

Celebrity Traitors is era-defining telly - because it knows that fame is the ultimate deceit

Will anyone ever trust Jonathan Ross again? Will Tom Daley come out in the edit as the ultimate villain? The genius of the new A-list version of The Traitors, argues Julia Raeside, is that it turns the celebrity power dynamic on its head

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