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Critic Reviews
Uncle BarkyJun 1, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The two protagonists carry the day, though. C.B. and Robin are well worth rooting for as they sift their way through both the crimes at hand and their own personal dilemmas. So keep writing these characters, J.K. Rowling. They’re every bit as down to earth as Harry Potter was fantastical.
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The TelegraphDec 19, 2024
Season 3 Review:
The characters, and the tender relationship between them, acquired new depth with flashbacks to Strike’s military days and Robin’s confession of her own past trauma. Their dialogue was witty. Grainger shone and Burke inhabited his role with stubbly charm. You could almost smell the fags, beer and angst on him.
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iDec 19, 2024
The TimesDec 19, 2024
Season 6 Review:
The plot hasn’t warmed up properly yet but it doesn’t really matter as the two main characters are so well-drawn, the yearning chemistry between them carrying things along, with Pat (Ruth Sheen) and Midge (Tupele Dorgu) in the office providing the “normal person” vibes.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Throughout, the disparity between Strike's melancholy disposition and robin's sunnier outlook makes for enjoyable teamwork. C.B. Strike may not break new ground in procedural storytelling, but it stays refreshingly true to character. [28 May - 10 Jun 2018, p.16]
Jan 23, 2025
Season 6 Review:
The season has a slightly sour atmosphere along with an airless, puzzle-solving approach to its mystery. This renders “The Ink Black Heart” a disappointment in the wake of earlier chapters like “Lethal White” and “Troubled Blood,” which were textured family dramas that used crime-solving as a framework. It still has the show’s great strength, however: the relationship between Cormoran and Robin.
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The Observer (UK)Dec 30, 2024
The GuardianDec 19, 2024
Season 3 Review:
The return to Sunday nights of Robert Galbraith’s thoroughly likable if unlikely private detective pairing – one-legged Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke) with Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger) – is good news. They have about three quid in the company coffers, plus a soupcon of sexual chemistry.
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The IndependentDec 19, 2024
The GuardianDec 19, 2024
Season 5 Review:
Troubled Blood’s epic runtime only accentuates the artifice of the pair [Cormoran and Robin] circling longingly, and when romantic developments do haltingly come, they too have the air of a throwback, namely the carefree English romcoms of the 90s. But it’s not enough to distract us from the thought that really, Strike is a Sunday-night detective like all the others.
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The TelegraphDec 19, 2024
Season 6 Review:
It’s all a bit tiresome, because Rowling has such a winning set-up with Strike and Robin. All we want is for them to have a rollicking good crime to solve, without all this other stuff getting in the way. Although there’s always room for a bit more romantic longing.
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The IndependentDec 19, 2024
Season 6 Review:
The compromises made for The Ink Black Heart both defang it and render the mystery too abridged to be truly satisfying. All the same, both the books and their adaptations are not really about crime, but the chemistry between Strike and Ellacott. .... There is vanishingly little room for a proper slow-burn relationship. But here we have one of the few convincing, and compelling, long-term love stories left to the format.
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May 31, 2018
Season 1 Review:
They’re both [Tom Burke & Holliday Grainger] good, particularly Ms. Grainger, who balances sardonic efficiency with intimations of smoky passion, and their interplay is the main reason to watch the show. It doesn’t quite make up, however, for the deficiencies of the mysteries, which are convoluted in conception and prosaic in presentation.
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The GuardianDec 19, 2024
Jun 1, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Clues to Landry’s murder are supermodel thin, but Strike finds them as if he has hidden wizarding powers (he does not). The suspects and leads are blindingly colorful in contrast to the rumpled, low-key detective. ... The disheveled detective is of course irresistible to [temp Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger)] too, so you can probably guess the answer. Viewers, however, my find him--and his cases--less interesting.
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May 31, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The phrase that recurred in my mind as I watched C.B. Strike was "not enough": not enough plot, not enough characterization, not enough suspense, not enough of its own DNA. But the pang of "not enough" was most keen when it came to the scenes between Burke and his co-star Holliday Grainger, who faultlessly embodies the earnest, thrill-seeking Robin.
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