The week in TV: Lupin; Call My Agent!; All the Sins; The Trump Show: Downfall – review Euan Ferguson
All the Sins (Channel 4) | All 4
The Trump Show (BBC Two) | iPlayer
It’s been a week of subtitles, a few other lands having the jumped-up temerity to communicate in languages other than the Queen’s English, and one of the chief offenders is the land of Netflix. I raise a post-Burns glass to it, and to the likes of Channel 4’s
Walter Presents, for offering other landscapes, sounds, lives: the ability to travel, during lockdown, for the tiniest of fees.
Lupin has been an ultra-hit around much of the world: a strange phenomenon when you consider it was the creation of an all but forgotten French author, and the hero, Arsène Lupin, is a “gentleman burglar” complete with monocle and top hat. But translate it to modern-day Paris, with the charismatic Omar Sy, a sexy Stetson flat cap and some hacking