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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Big Mood; Renegade Nell; A Gentleman in Moscow; Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods – review

Nicola Coughlan as Maggie and Lydia West as Eddie in Big Mood.
Nicola Coughlan as Maggie and Lydia West as Eddie in the ‘genuinely innovative and immersive’ Big Mood. Photograph: Chris Baker/Channel 4

Big Mood (Channel 4) | channel4.com
Renegade Nell Disney+
A Gentleman in Moscow Paramount+
Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods (BBC Two) | iPlayer

There’s a point in dark new comedy Big Mood (Channel 4) when Eddie (Lydia West from It’s a Sin) turns to Maggie (Nicola Coughlan, the first of two Derry Girls to hit the week’s screens) and says: “I fix problems and you… have them.” Written by Camilla Whitehill (a friend of Coughlan’s; they do the Whistle Through the Shamrocks podcast together), Big Mood starts as a potty-mouthed millennial sugar rush. Impetuous Maggie is a playwright; steadfast Eddie runs a bar. Together, the BFFs navigate life in east London.

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