Nick Hilton

More dragons did not have to mean less humanity, and yet the balance remains off in a show that is dazzlingly bombastic but disappointingly shallow.

Led by a brilliant Howard, who portrays Byron from adolescence through to coming out as a trans woman – What It Feels Like for a Girl is evocative of the edgy BBC Three series that millennials grew up on, shows like Conviction and Lip Service.

It is well-written and well-acted, but it aspires to nothing more than being fun. Real, associable human emotions are kept at arm’s length in favour of stylised bucolic horniness.

It lacks the pizzazz of Peaky Blinders or the relentless rug pulls of Line of Duty. What’s left is Forsyth’s trademark brand of period drama: engaging but not gripping, authentic but not original, well-crafted but not striking. Legends, is, in short, what a lot of British telly is: an exercise in risk-free repetition.

It feels like a show in search of meaning, a plot looking for a story – and, frankly, it’s a huge misfire.

There will be some who find the daily flow of news sufficiently monstrous, who don’t need fiction to hold a mirror up to society right now. But, for others, The Testaments will serve as an impressive follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, lightening the tone, upping the pace, but retaining its careful depiction of how a society can backslide into regression and repression.

A vapid show about vapidity, a materialist show about materialism: Euphoria owns its contradictions, and, in this final season, shows it’s mastered them.

The Pitt isn’t shy of drama and while it occasionally lapses into convenient contrivances, it largely remains grounded.

What SNL UK’s opening episode does demonstrate is a willingness to push the envelope, to risk bad taste. Borrowing a beloved American format might feel a bit stale, but there are notes of new ingredients that could offer something fresh.

Malpractice might not sublimate the instinct towards sensation quite as effectively as Adolescence, but they are tonal siblings in how they present the spiral of a nightmarish situation.