Radio Times

With stunning cinematography and an elegant score, the unsettling family saga gets room to breathe across a sweeping adaptation that digs into the detail and texture of the source material, and brings this story of generational trauma, sibling rivalry and the intoxicating power of temptation to a whole new generation.

Based on this first instalment, it’s shaping up to be another bumper series of what has become the BBC’s biggest hit of recent times. If they keep this up, the universe can only expand.

The young cast are outstanding, and the benefit of having eight episodes to play with is that their backstories can be built. .... But the series belongs to Howell.

A slow burn, this most definitely isn’t. But once the dust settles, the plot pivots, and what initially looks like a discourse about asylum morphs somewhat awkwardly into something else entirely: a story about the consequences of being exposed.

War deserves to bathe in the positivity it should garner for being the best British legal drama in years.

Ultimately, 13 is (so far) a reminder that AHS can’t and shouldn’t be taken too seriously. It’s not difficult to forgive its flaws, no matter how numerous. It’s hard to predict where (if anywhere) the franchise will be able to go after this, its most ambitious outing yet, but that’s a future problem.

It is a script that badly needs help from a charismatic lead performance, but Zeta-Jones refuses point-blank. .... There’s no need for anyone to kill Jackie. She was never alive.

Throughout it all, the show has remained much-loved – and the latest formula, with Nigella now in the mix, looks set to be every bit as delicious.

MobLand proves itself capable of serious mobster drama. The double-crossing battle of wits between families is far more credible this time around, and it’s capable of classic gangland fare.

It’s not an innovative or particularly surprising thriller, but the personnel are easy to root for and, at the centre, Sten is a strong lead, making Neagley somehow impervious and deeply sensitive, acutely emotionally intelligent but unable to control her own feelings.