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Much Ado About Nothing (2011)
Really hard to find fault
This is a wonderful production and it's really hard to find fault with it - except that, as in just about any production, the energy flags a little when Benedict and Beatrice aren't on stage (or screen).
That's not to cast any aspersions on the supporting cast - they're all fine, but Tate and Tennant are simply luminous as the wit-cracking hate-to-love couple and the writing (sorry Will) isn't nearly as good for any of the other characters. But Beatrice and Benedict have some of Shakespeare's finest comedy writing and Tate and Tennant deliver it with panache and occasional moments of clumsy; shamefaced tenderness. It's very very funny and quite simply a delight.
Good Omens (2019)
Warm, wise and witty
The best thing about Good Omens isn't that it's brilliantly written (which it is), or that it has absolutely outstanding production values (which it does) or even that it has a devilishly divine cast (which it has) ... it's that it makes you feel good about the world.
It makes you appreciate how wonderful our earth is, how endlessly creative and inventive humanity is and how lucky we are to be human.
And it does it all with humour, with zest and with love.
There isn't another TV series like it. I doubt there ever will be.
It's blessedly ineffable and I have thanked God for it every day since Season One first screened.