The Enfield Poltergeist, review: a ghost story this good doesn’t need all the padding

At its best, The Enfield Poltergeist, a four-part documentary series on Apple TV+, is a clever and powerful piece of television. Unfortunately, it takes three hours to get there. Each of the first three episodes begins with a caption telling you that between 1977 and 1978 a self-styled paranormal investigator called Maurice Grosse recorded 200 hours of audio at the supposedly haunted address of 234 Green Road, in Enfield. By the end of The Enfield Poltergeist, you may wish he had been more selec