It was a powerful start to a ballsy series about reclaiming what a person has lost (in the broadest sense). Curiously, the term wasn’t coined until more than 20 years after the Strokes kicked off the scene with their dirty Converse. 14View image in fullscreen Reunited … Alan Carr and Paloma Faith on Mad, Sad and Bad. 4The New Yorker’s In the Dark has long been one of the most compelling true-crime series around, and its latest British-based outing kept the bar high. Photograph: Tenderfoot TVThis word-of-mouth hit wasn’t just a gripping true-crime podcast, but a format-busting exercise in ensuring that describing it as “a gripping true-crime podcast” almost certainly fails to do it justice.

Source: The Guardian December 24, 2025 14:23 UTC