Agatha Christie's Seven Dials
Netflix | Release Date: January 15, 2026
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
What's Alan Watching?Alan SepinwallJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: This kind of story needs a heroine who's both charming enough to carry the action, and believable as someone whom no one expects to be good at detective work. Fortunately, McKenna-Bruce is slyly funny and cool in the lead role. Read full review
80
The IndependentPatrick SmithJan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review: Seven Dials sits comfortably in that upper tier. It pulls off the difficult trick of making something feel both nimble and reassuringly familiar – a period caper that glides through gilded country piles and shadowy streets. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubSaloni GajjarJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Seven Dials delivers an engaging drama that stays mostly faithful to its source material. Read full review
70
StatusBrian LowryJan 16, 2026
Season 1 Review: Very British, and once the threads start connecting, pretty good. Read full review
70
DeciderJoel KellerJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials is a well-paced, traditional Christie adaptation with a fun-to-watch young protagonist at its center, which is rare in the world of the classic mystery novelist’s stories. Read full review
70
VarietyAramide TinubuJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: McKenna-Bruce is delightful as the pint-sized self-proclaimed detective determined to do whatever is possible to find out what happened to her friend. A few of the clues unveiled in “Seven Dials” are more obvious than others, but there are just enough surprises to make the series worthwhile. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Here, the journey isn’t necessarily thrilling, nor is it as intellectually adroit as peak Sherlock, but it’s lively and easygoing entertainment. And for most viewers, Mia McKenna-Bruce will be a most agreeable discovery. Read full review
63
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersJan 23, 2026
Season 1 Review: Their back-and-forth gives the series the pluck it lacks elsewhere. Should there should be a second season of “Seven Dials, it would be best to dial up more of that Bundle-Battle repartee and formulate a better, more convincing mystery that’s not overly reliant on coincidences and preposterous. Read full review
60
The Travers TakePeter TraversJan 17, 2026
Season 1 Review: New star Mia McKenna-Bruce makes a charming amateur sleuth in a mishmash mystery, needlessly extended into three parts. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid OpieJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Dial in for an unexpected treat in this lesser-seen Agatha Christie story, which comes to life every time Mia McKenna-Bruce appears to share her observations and a wry quip. Read full review
60
Radio TimesJames HibbsJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: It's a passable few hours of entertainment, with a gloss and level of performance above the norm, but it's not a mystery on the level of even the middling Christie adaptations - making the ticking clock metaphor surprisingly apt. Read full review
60
Screen RantEl KuiperJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Netflix's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Seven Dials takes a passably entertaining murder mystery and tries to raise its emotional stakes with mixed results. Read full review
60
The TelegraphAnita Singh Jan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: If you have neither read the original book nor care about the changes, this is a diverting three-parter. Christie purists may feel differently. The ending is completely new. Read full review
60
The TimesCarol MidgleyJan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review: It is a handsome distraction from ugly things happening around the world but I still hanker for a Marple or a Poirot. Read full review
50
ColliderDavid CaballeroJan 14, 2026
Season 1 Review: Too slow to be riveting and too needlessly drawn out, it's a run-of-the-mill adaptation of one of Christie's most run-of-the-mill novels, and the strongest proof that not every work from the renowned author warrants a fresh take. Read full review
40
iEd PowerJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Across three tepid hours, Christie’s killer story is wasted on a series that feels dead on arrival. Read full review
40
The GuardianLucy ManganJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: Retro without flair and full of modern concerns about everyone’s emotional wellbeing is a mix that doesn’t work for me. Read full review
30
TheWrapKayleigh DonaldsonJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: The ending is new, and it is so convoluted and out-of-nowhere that one imagines Chibnall came up with it by throwing darts at a board full of random ideas. It’s not clever or witty or a satisfying surprise in a Christie-esque manner. Really, it’s rather insulting. .... Fortunately for Christie enthusiasts, there are plenty of alternatives to indulge in over this misfire. Read full review
10
RogerEbert.comNandini BalialJan 15, 2026
Season 1 Review: The latest attempt to adapt the Queen of Crime’s work is a dismal failure: There’s no regard for Christie’s prose, no idea who the series’ audience is meant to be, and no goal except to further increase Netflix’s intellectual property resources. Read full review
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