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Series Details & Credits
| Apple TV | Release Date: January 10, 2024 |
Summary:
Detective Sergeant June Lenker (Cush Jumbo) investigates an anonymous phone call that puts a confession from a case Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) worked on in doubt in this thriller series from Paul Rutman.
Genre(s):
Drama, Suspense
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Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
Jan 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Criminal Record doesn’t traffic in binary characterizations; neither June nor her nemesis are as good or as bad as they seem. Both make assumptions about the other and regularly circumvent the rules to further their agenda, and I toggled at least four times between believing one’s version of events over the other’s. The uncertainty adds a tantalizing layer of tension to June and Hegarty’s many clashes, as does the thrill of watching Jumbo and Capaldi face off.
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The Mercury News
Jan 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
More than a meticulous procedural as it exposes a legacy of layered coverups while exploring the emotional frailties of these two unlike but smart characters. Both Jumbo and Capaldi give extraordinary performances in a series that digs deep into the complicated home lives of both. “Criminal Record” deserves to become a hit and here’s hoping for a second season.
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Jan 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
As charismatic as Lenker is, and as instinctively leery we may be of Hegarty, it is the balance created between the two characters—one a dogged idealist, the other a case-hardened veteran, both carrying no end of personal baggage—that elevates the entire eight-part series.
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Jan 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
All the elements needed for a great, compulsive police drama are there: undercurrents of wrongdoing by those in power, exposed by an underdog copper against all the odds… with lots of action added in for extra oomph. If it was on a more mainstream channel, its success would be inevitable.
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The Guardian
Apr 22, 2026
Jan 5, 2024
Jan 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What might be a knotty enough case to sustain a two-hour movie or a four-episode arc within a longer drama starts to drag over eight hours. Which might be more forgivable if the world of the show were engaging enough to stand on its own merits — but despite creator Paul Rutman’s ear for natural-sounding dialogue, his characters hardly seem to deepen past the ideas they’re meant to represent.
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