C.B. Strike: Season 6

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HBO | Cinemax | BBC One | Season Premiere Date: January 23, 2025

Summary: Cormoran and Robin investigate the murder of the writer of an online cartoon who was alleging harassment from the creator of a video game spin-off of the cartoon before her death.

[Premiered originally in the UK as the sixth season of Strike on BBC One with the subtitle of The Ink Black Heart on 16 Dec 2024 and in the US as Season 4 onCormoran and Robin investigate the murder of the writer of an online cartoon who was alleging harassment from the creator of a video game spin-off of the cartoon before her death.

[Premiered originally in the UK as the sixth season of Strike on BBC One with the subtitle of The Ink Black Heart on 16 Dec 2024 and in the US as Season 4 on HBO on 23 Jan 2025]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

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The Times Carol Midgley

Dec 19, 2024

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. Read full review

Joel Keller

Jan 24, 2025

While the mystery in C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart is a bit slowly-paced, we do appreciate the elbow room the writers have to explore the lives and relationships of Strike, Robin and the other series regulars. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Dec 19, 2024

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. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

Dec 19, 2024

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. Read full review

i Nick Duerden

Dec 19, 2024

Strike is often a little silly, even am-dram, and the script is clunky with exposition. .... Nevertheless, amidst the perfunctory nature of it all – the crime, the clues, the assorted malcontents – it still made for compelling comfort viewing. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jan 23, 2025

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. Read full review

The Guardian Jack Seale

Dec 19, 2024

In the absence of any interesting crime-solving to distract us, the actors’ excellence doesn’t transcend the frustration of their characters’ relationship not being allowed to progress. Like everything else in Strike, the detectives’ love is starting to go stale. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 6

59
- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: January 23, 2025
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 5

75
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: February 6, 2023
Season 4

66
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: January 20, 2021
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 25, 2018
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 10, 2017
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 1, 2018