Is there a person alive who doesn’t love to read a good bad review? (Apart, obviously, from the subject of the review.) Positive notices are all well and good but they’re kind of limiting: a negative review is what really unleashes the critic’s full powers, letting them unsheathe every rhetorical device and bon mot at their disposal. Diana Rigg is probably most famous to North Americans as Lady Olenna in Game of Thrones, or possibly Mrs. Peel in The Avengers, but like many English actors […]
