Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Jack Seale
    Jul 15, 2022
    100
    Peake embodies the role in life that Anne Williams would fulfil with the highest possible distinction: Kevin’s mum.
  2. Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Jul 15, 2022
    80
    While the drama will damn the police actions, and the subsequent cover-up, Sampson also conveys the awful randomness of tragedy: Anne’s son was at his first ever away game; his friend made it home, but he did not.
  3. Reviewed by: Gerard Gilbert
    Jul 15, 2022
    80
    Anne is shaping up to be a deeply moving rebuttal of such callousness.
  4. Reviewed by: Ed Cumming
    Jul 15, 2022
    80
    Anne is well written, tense, beautifully acted, unrelentingly sad and angry. It does everything a drama ever could. I’m just not sure I can watch.
  5. Reviewed by: Flora Carr
    Jul 15, 2022
    80
    The first half of the episode skillfully takes us through the events of the 15th, one agonising moment after another.