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| Sundance Now | AMC+ | Season Premiere Date: December 16, 2022 |
Summary:
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko (David Tennant) was poisoned with polonium-210 in London and his widow Marina (Margarita Levieva) seeks to have the Russian State named as perpetrators by the British government in the four-part drama written by George Kay.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E4. Episode #1.4
Air Date: June 22, 2023
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S1:E2. Episode #1.2
Air Date: June 20, 2023
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S1:E1. Episode #1.1
Air Date: June 19, 2023
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Dec 15, 2022
The entire series is buoyed by its performances. ... But it’s Levieva’s Marina who steals the show, despite being criminally underused, only coming to the fore in the final episode as she demands a public enquiry from the British Government. Litvinenko is far from dull, but that’s less down to the crafting of the series and more due to the riveting story it is telling.
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The Daily Beast
Dec 16, 2022
Largely because its arguments have already been persuasively made, and also because there’s been no real justice for the murder of its subject, Litvinenko runs out of steam before it reaches its destination. Still, thanks to a collection of sturdy performances and a clear-sighted recitation of the evidence, it lays bare Putin’s willingness to go to extreme measures to achieve his ends.
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The Telegraph
Dec 15, 2022
Radio Times
Dec 15, 2022
It's where the show leans into the emotional core of those affected by this awful crime that episodes 2 and 4, the lesser chapters, shine brightest, rather than in their more traditional police procedural or court room trappings. ... Unfortunately this does make episode 4, which dramatises Marina Litvinenko's years-long legal battle for justice, the weakest of the bunch.
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Collider
Dec 15, 2022
Unfortunately, in execution, Litvinenko is a middling miniseries that is sporadically interesting though ultimately never comes together, even as it grasps at something more. For all its committed performances, it is a work whose dramatic elements are too haphazardly and hurriedly sketched to leave an impact.
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The Guardian
Dec 15, 2022
This shouldn’t have been a rush job. There has been the opportunity to work on the story of his life and his death and transmute it – especially in a time when dictatorial regimes, violence and governmental lawlessness are in the ascendant – into something better, broader, more meaningful than this.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: December 16, 2022
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S1:E4. Episode #1.4
Air Date: June 22, 2023
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S1:E2. Episode #1.2
Air Date: June 20, 2023
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S1:E1. Episode #1.1
Air Date: June 19, 2023
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Season 1 Overview