After the Flood
BritBox | Release Date: May 13, 2024
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
iGerard GilbertJan 20, 2026
Season 2 Review: While Jo is no Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire’s inimitable character in Happy Valley), neither is she meant to be. Mackie, however, is shaping up to be a villain every bit as skin-crawling as James Norton’s Tommy Lee Royce. Read full review
80
ColliderMaggie BoccellaMay 13, 2024
Season 1 Review: No one’s slacking off here — proof that you can still reinvent the wheel with a classic story structure, provided you do it right. Read full review
80
Radio TimesAbby RobinsonApr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: With an interesting blend of high-drama and genuine comment on the defining issue of our time, After the Flood is an entertaining, rewarding watch. Read full review
80
The GuardianLucy ManganApr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: It settles into the aftermath of the disaster, introduces us to folk, conjures a real town and real relationships swiftly and convincingly. Read full review
60
The GuardianJack SealeJan 20, 2026
Season 2 Review: The impressive set piece that opened the first run announced that the show was aiming higher, and the lack of an equivalent here signals that those sights have been slightly lowered. After the Flood has begun to drift. Read full review
60
The TelegraphAnita Singh Apr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: They’ve tried to make it Happy Valley-lite. The location (actually filmed in Derbyshire, but could easily pass for Calderdale), the small community, even the theme music are similar. But we’re not in the same league. Sarah Lancashire would wipe the floor with this lot. Read full review
60
The TimesCarol MidgleyApr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: The opening sequence, shot on the River Tees in Co Durham, was grimly striking. .... What is slightly less so is the plot. .... But it deserves credit for being a drama that for once doesn't centre on a raped/mutilated/murdered young woman. It is different, and by no means a damp squib. Read full review
60
iRachael SigeeApr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: Some terrifically written (and performed) scenes of Jo’s home life, besieged by her husband’s terrible sister and family, bumped up against extremely clunky exposition elsewhere, most notably when Jo relayed the entire Lift Man case to her climate activist mother. Read full review
60
The IndependentNick HiltonApr 15, 2024
Season 1 Review: What remains is a middle-order cop drama which, unlike the remaining denizens of our drowned world, is really neither fish nor fowl. Read full review
40
DeciderJoel KellerApr 23, 2026
Season 2 Review: We wish After The Flood would concentrate on one story instead of the handful it has to juggle, because the talent in front and behind the camera is so good. But the show continues to be messy and muddled, and really hard to connect with. Read full review
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