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Dalgliesh

Series Details & Credits

Acorn TV | Release Date: November 1, 2021

Summary: Recent widower and poet, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh (Bertie Carvel) investigates crimes in mid-1970s England in this series based on the novels by P.D. James.

Genre(s): Drama

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Critic Reviews

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Paste Magazine

Alexis Gunderson

Nov 1, 2021

Season 1 Review: If you’re going to watch Dalgliesh—and really, I hope you do—put down your phone. Put down your phone, turn your subtitles on, and let yourself fall under the spell of television that trusts you to actually watch. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Nov 1, 2021

Season 1 Review: For all their intrinsic power, these images of sudden horror are mere details compared with the storytelling that brings this series to roaring life (the script was written by Helen Edmundson). Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Nov 1, 2021

Season 1 Review: Bertie Carvel brings a quietly dashing tone of pensive authority to this multilayered and romantic character: a detective, widower, poet. [25 Oct - 7 Nov 2021, p.9]

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Decider

Joel Keller

Nov 2, 2021

Season 1 Review: If you like straightforward British procedurals based on classic characters, than Dalgliesh won’t disappoint. But there seems to be a lost opportunity to dive more into Dalgliesh’s interesting character, especially given who is playing the detective this time around. Read full review

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i Gerard Gilbert

Dec 5, 2024

Season 3 Review: If the detective remained something of an enigma, then there was an accomplished support cast to breathe life into the suspects. Read full review

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The Times Carol Midgley

Dec 5, 2024

Season 3 Review: Death in Holy Orders isn’t the most thrilling of PD James’s plots (I haven’t read the book but I have seen both episodes and had guessed the killer by the end of episode one) but it was helped enormously by two guest performances. Read full review

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Joel Keller

Dec 5, 2024

Season 3 Review: We continue to enjoy Dalgliesh because of Bertie Carvel’s grimace-filled empathetic portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh. We just wish we had more info about the detective and somewhat more tightly-written mysteries. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: December 2, 2024
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 24, 2023
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 1, 2021