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\u201cThere\u2019s such a fine line between \u201ccheese\u201d and \u201ccringe\u201d, is there not? Come, walk it with me and Tom Hiddleston in Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston. Let\u2019s see how many of us survive the eruptions of embarrassment that attend our journey! This is a National Geographic documentary-drama, which means that even the factual bits are emotionally scripted and there\u2019s CGI money and speaking parts for the re-enactments. And there is Tom (he has looked very deeply into my eyes throughout all three episodes, so I feel we are on first-name terms now), wringing every drop of feeling from every moment with the untrammelled appetite of a born actor.\u201d \u201cIn AD79, up to 16,000 people were horribly killed by a pyroclastic surge of rock, gas and lava from the erupting Mount Vesuvius. And now, in further bad news for the poor residents of Pompeii, Tom Hiddleston is wandering around their plaster-cast corpses being cringe. Hiddleston, of Marvel fame, is a historian now. He\u2019s the host of National Geographic\u2019s Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston, a new documentary series cut together with dramatic reconstructions, which is also in some ways a secret spin-off for his impish, time-travelling Marvel character Loki. Hiddleston clicks his fingers and rewinds the action throughout, throws computer data into mid-air a la Minority Report or Sherlock Holmes\u2019s mind palace, and halts conversations (\u201cWait, pause!\u201d) to tell a professor of classics that actually he can speak fluent Latin so can do the translating for him.\u201d
\u201cAll these people who call themselves influencers – they\u2019re just shysters, all of them, online frauds and fakers peddling their veneers of perfection. We all know it. But how satisfying it is to see proof, when the 1,000-watt facade slips and the nightmare behind the false smile is revealed. I\u2019d never heard of the Frankes or their YouTube channel, though they were apparently famous in the States, a few years ago. But I was engrossed by the US documentary The Devil In The Family: The Fall Of Ruby Franke, which showed footage the parents filmed and didn\u2019t release – glimpses of anger, bitterness, violence and control-freakery they never intended the world to see.\u201d
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n
Adam White, The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Devil In The Family: The Fall Of Ruby Franke, BBC2
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