Brian and Maggie
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 5, 2025
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8

Critic Reviews

  1. Screen Rant
    Reviewed by: Grant Hermanns
    Oct 3, 2025
    80
    With solid turns from the rest of the cast, Brian and Maggie is a gripping watch, to the point it's only disappointing in just how short it is.
  2. i
    Reviewed by: Gerard Gilbert
    Aug 25, 2025
    80
    Walter certainly delivers a more rounded Thatcher than we’re used to, although any 80s nostalgia is limited to the lost art of the unspun, in-depth political interview. Brian and Maggie illustrates the kind of political interview (not to mention honesty) of which we are we’re being deprived.
  3. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Aug 25, 2025
    80
    Crucially, Maggie herself doesn’t collapse into caricature. Walter doesn’t resemble Thatcher – not the tiniest bit – but she somehow makes you feel her, warts and all.
  5. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Nick Hilton
    Aug 25, 2025
    80
    He [Steve Coogan] inhabits Walden’s stolid lack of glamour (a trait shared by great interviewers of this ilk, from Robin Day to Andrew Neil), allowing only his eyes to speak the truth of his ambition. Walter’s Thatcher, on the other hand, feels slightly off. .... Even though the work is more politically equivocal than might be expected from the triumvirate of Frears, Graham and Coogan, it is still effectively polemical.
  6. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Aug 25, 2025
    80
    A drama that is worth your time – an absorbing study of politics, class and conflicted loyalties.
  7. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Aug 25, 2025
    80
    Episode two is markedly better than episode one (both are available) as we see him effectively “betraying” the trust she had in him with artful interview sucker punches. (Quite right: he was paid to be a journalist, not a chum.) .... Both performances are masterly.