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Critic Reviews
iApr 7, 2025
Season 5 Review:
Yes, the script is, at times, a smidge on the lazy side (at one point, Frank says, “You just don’t get it, do you!” a phrase which appears so often on the screen that it really needs to be banned). But the tension stays high, and Brighton is as salty a backdrop as one might hope. With three more episodes to come, Sunday night is in safe hands.
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The TelegraphSep 3, 2024
Season 4 Review:
The loosest of loose threads that has stitched the standalone stories of Grace together, at last we got fleeting glimpses of the elusive Sandy (Clare Calbraith, soon to be seen in A Very Royal Scandal, Amazon’s spin on the Prince Andrew interview) as she hovered in the background with an anguished look on her face. What’s she up to, that’s the burning question. Until that lid is lifted, I’m hooked.
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The TelegraphMar 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Grace is one of those dramas in which you shouldn’t think too hard about plot points. Such as: would two ruthless killers really leave their main victim alive? And it’s one in which the lead detective works things out inordinately quickly, and immediately tells the suspects that he suspects them. But these aren’t major problems. If ITV can find room in the schedules, another Grace instalment would go down nicely.
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The TimesSep 3, 2024
Season 4 Review:
While I welcome this development, and John Simm’s gentle-voiced, light-touch acting as Det Supt Roy Grace is consistently the best thing about this series, it was a very unlikely plot. Despite the efforts of Robert Glenister, as a man haunted by witnessing as a child 60 years ago his father dragged out of their home by violent men, to inject some energy into proceedings, the shonkiness of the dialogue often defeated him.
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The TimesMar 20, 2023
Season 2 Review:
If you weren't depressed before you will have been by 10pm, unless of course snuff porn is your thing. I think this is our new Vera. The weirdest thing of all is that it wasn't totally terrible. This was mainly down to John Simm playing Roy Grace. ... The other positive thing about it was the character of DS Norman Potting, played by Craig Parkinson. ... Thanks also to Richie Campbell and Amit Shah there was enough to keep watching. Although I wish I hadn't.
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Radio TimesMar 20, 2023
Season 2 Review:
For some, the messy contradictions of this series will be its appeal, making it stand out from the crowd. For me, I kind of wish it would just pick a lane and either go full paranormal weirdness, grim-dark slasher or conventional detective drama. It's when it falls into the latter camp that Grace is at its strongest, proving that sometimes less really is more.
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iSep 3, 2024
Season 4 Review:
Simm is fine but not given a lot to do beyond the usual police business and being anguished by the disappearance of his wife, Sandy (who continues to haunt Brighton, now clutching the results of a mysterious paternity test). Grace at least has a new love interest, Cleo, the forensics bod played by Zoe Tapper, while his sidekick, DS Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell), has seemingly resolved his marital difficulties. But it’s hard to care.
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The TimesMar 20, 2023
The TelegraphMar 20, 2023
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