Taste

4.7/5

Critic Rating

Zakia Sewell explores the ideas of identity, aesthetics and social conditioning that lie within 'taste'.


Critic Reviews

Score: 4

Edward Wickham • Church Times Oct 8, 2023

"...it is hard to share the sense of urgency expressed by Professor Dave O’Brien, when he speaks breathlessly of the increasing difficulty of assessing “the objective value of culture”. We might have benefited here from the historical patience of Mr Loach...it was unsettling that the programme concluded on a note of such condescension. The work of discomfiting entrenched taste “is not easy work, but it’s worth doing”."

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Score: 5

Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian Jul 8, 2023

"...has been delightful throughout. Host Zakia Sewell is curious and open to learn, and it’s been lovely to hear from younger people talking about how taste has affected them or their tribes."

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Score: 5

Charlotte Runcie • Telegraph UK Jul 5, 2023

"...a deep and thought-provoking series about what it means to have good taste...Over four episodes, the series broadened out to consider the meaning of public declarations of good taste, and particularly how these are expressed through major institutions and cultural projects that in turn shape our own...finale considered, with careful nuance..."

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