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Critic Reviews
The GuardianFeb 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The experience is one of energetic abundance rather than chaos. If you are left wishing there had been more time to get to know some of the marginal characters – well, what a rare sensation that is, compared with wishing you weren’t watching padded ciphers drifting round a barren plot.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review:
From the first episode, creator Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”) creates a sense of familiarity between the characters that feels unlike anything we’ve recently seen on television. .... With each episode, it becomes clear that you’re watching something special, the show fantastically blending a sharpness and earnestness throughout its six-episode run. When the final episode comes along, it’s impossible not to be left wanting more.
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Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
There's no doubt the show deserves - demands, in fact - attention. The characters are as instantly compelling in the way that sprawling HBO dramas manage, the performances are very, very good, and the story hurtles along wonderfully. .... A Thousand Blows is about as good a 6-episode run as I've seen in some time.
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Feb 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The costumes, production design, score, and tableau are equal to the razzle dazzle of “Peaky Blinders.” While there isn’t the galvanizing gangster family saga fueled by charismatic Cillian Murphy’s kingpin Tommy Shelby that propelled Knight’s series to top 100 status on the IMDB TV charts, “A Thousand Blows” lands its punch, making for killer television.
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Feb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review:
To be honest, the season-one finale isn’t much of a knockout, ending things on a low point for our challengers. But a “To Be Continued” title card and an action-packed teaser affirms that there is indeed plenty of fight left in this promising, bloody-knuckled bunch.
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The IndependentFeb 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The result is a show that is lavish yet purposeful, bringing to life a world slipping inexorably from bare fists to boxing gloves, from savagery to the illusory modernity of Trump's beloved MMA. Like a pay-per-view fight night, A Thousand Blows manages to be bruising yet joyous.
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Feb 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
A raft of superb performances aside, “A Thousand Blows” is not particularly subtle, nor does that even seem the idea. Its worthwhile sociopolitical points and allegiances — it stands with women, immigrants and the poor, for natural dignity against mere manners — are writ large; its emotional entanglements are operatic, its heist narrative the stuff of pulp fiction.
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