A return to the White Lotus
By the show’s admittedly high standards, this first episode was definitely disappointing
James Walton
James Walton is The Spectator’s TV critic
Monday
Tuesday
Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra girlbosses against historical fact
Watching it felt alarmingly like witnessing the death of scholarship
Saturday
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series is brimming with ponderous aphorisms
Any pedants watching will have been delighted by the scrupulous observance of old-school linguistic rules
Thursday
Is The Undoing actually great?
Or just a run-of-the-mill thriller with a brilliant casting director?
Thursday
Jimmy Page is a Capricorn – that says it all
In 1957, aged 13, Jimmy Page appeared with his skiffle group on a children’s TV programme dedicated to ‘unusual hobbies’ — skiffle apparently qualifying as one. During the show, he was interviewed by Huw Wheldon who, following an old-fashioned BBC lunch, arrived in the studio with a hearty cry of ‘Where are these fucking kids
