- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2026
Critic Reviews
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
The characterisation from Kinnaman and Santelmann is top notch, and the scenes between them are the best thing here, but there is a problem with the drama’s narrative flow.
-
If the storytelling were tighter and more successfully focused on its more sociologically provocative elements, Detective Hole could have settled into the overstuffed genre’s top tier rather than taking a place in the acceptable middle.
-
“Detective Hole” exhibits the genre’s preferences for sadism, sensationalism and crescendoing gore over plausibility. And Hole himself is kind of a drag, a situation that Santelmann (Ragnar the Younger in “The Last Kingdom”) doesn’t do much to alleviate. But the show is conspicuously polished and nice to look at.
-
After delivering a compelling hook in its opening chapter and leaving viewers with engaging cliffhangers in the first few episodes, the Netflix crime thriller becomes a little too redundant.
-
The twists and turns are frequent, yet impressively the narrative is always relatively easy to follow and grab a hold of. .... The pacing often drags and beats repeat themselves.