A show that announced itself in a blaze of melodrama a year ago has a stonking case of difficult-second-season syndrome

Ride Lonesome is not just Beck Hansen’s best album in years. It might also be the darkest. Is this the real Beck, the man behind the slacker mask?

Television: Traitors acting like Faithfuls, Faithfuls acting like Traitors – there is plenty of time for one final twist

Postpunk band are upfront about having accumulated hard-won wisdom since they formed in 2020 before lockdown

The return of RTÉ’s long-running chatshow is a reminder of its wildly fluctuating tone

The Berlin-based Danish musician on the elation of pregnancy, her music taking a turn away from technology during Covid, and depression

Few of us seem willing to suffer through the trauma of the driving test again, even with PJ Gallagher’s big bag of loot as a sweetener

Were Sheeran to cancel the tour, the total economic loss is estimated to be anywhere from $60-$100 million

Television: Seven-yearly series has followed the same group of English people through their lives, unearthing riveting and devastating personal stories

Television: Fascinating portrait of outsiders who have set up home on windswept Irish outcrops

Television: The series has come down with a severe case of difficult second season syndrome

Stadium on the northside of Dublin, set for the wrecking ball having hosted Bohs games since 1901, holds a grand farewell

As Netflix’s hit Paris-set dramedy returns as a movie, its star talks about French cinema’s darker side and how a trip to Kilkenny landed her a role opposite Matt Damon

One of Bloc Party’s most engaging records since Silent Alarm is also the most personal LP of Kele Okereke’s career

Television: American Office spin-off is caught between the urge to be sincere and the obligation to be uproarious