The Daily Rail 2022112601

26 November 2022 updated 27 November 2022

Sarah Vine Reviews Her TV Week

Overview

Sarah Vine reviewed the new Netflix TV show Wednesday, the James Corden film Mammals on Amazon Prime Video, and the BBC2 factual series Mystery Queen for Weekend Magazine and MailOnline.

Wednesday

Sarah says she was a dead ringer for Wednesday as a child, and goes on to explain. I'm not sure that she looks too much like Jenna Ortega now though.

From her review, it sounds like she really likes the show, and gives it a five star rating:

Mammals

Moving on to the film Mammals on Amazon Prime Video, Sarah was not so impressed. She found James Corden smug and irritating, and apologised in advance.

Sarah said the film was terrible, that this was the truth, objectively, not just in her subjective opinion.

The film was so terrible, that Sarah didn't know where to start. It was pretentious, weird, conceited, difficult to understand. The characters were unlikeable, smug and entitled. The writing was trite.

Sarah critisized Corden's acting as just playing himself, which she described as overindulged, insecure, big, babyish, blind and overprivileged.

The kicker: Sarah says that for James Corden to be married to someone as "stunningly beautiful" as Melia Kreiling (who plays his on screen wife) would "clearly be impossible". Ouch.

I remember seeing Cara Delevigne and James Corden on a TV show together, and Cara was up for hanging out with Corden outside of the show. Plus, James Corden is minted, so that must hold an attraction for some people.

So how does Sarah rate this terrible film?

I think the Daily Mail Rating Meter must be broken. Looks like a typo.

FIFA World Cup

Sarah is not a football fan. No rating, no review, just suggestions to the BBC to take it off their main channels.

Mystery Queen

Sarah reviews Mystery Queen on BBC2, hosted by Lucy Worsley. No rating given for this.

Summary

Sarah comparing herself to Jenna Ortega is perhaps slightly wishful thinking, even if historically. Calling out the plausibility of James Corden's on-screen partnership based on looks is harsh. While I am similarly not a big fan of Corden, it seems a bit of a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Cara Delevigne seemed to get on with Corden OK. I'm not sure if that was scripted. Next up to read on the sidebar of shame is this that I have just spotted: Cara Delevigne dontates her ORGASM to science.