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Positive:
17
Mixed:
3
Negative:
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Critic Reviews
The Mercury NewsMar 27, 2025
Mar 24, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The comedic possibilities of social awkwardness have been explored thoroughly in the past couple of decades in British and American entertainment, but Mitchell is especially good at evoking it, and the way it happens in “Ludwig” feels new. The series manages to function as a comedy, a drama, and a mystery procedural at once, and the awkwardness isn’t only for fun.
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Mar 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
e situation in this comedy is among the hoariest of conceits: a lookalike faking his way across a terrain with which he is not familiar in the least, a setup of the type that usually involves cringey, predictable and implausible predicaments. And yet it all feels very fresh. And not cringey. Which is largely due to Mr. Mitchell.
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Radio TimesNov 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It's a blend of new and old, ridiculous and well-trodden, and for some it will lean too far one way or the other for their sensibilities. However, if you're willing to go with it, Mitchell and co have created a distinct - and distinctly fun - series which also sits alongside those murder mystery shows it's paying homage to, keeps you hooked and is endlessly watchable.
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The Observer (UK)Nov 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The more episodes I watched, the more I liked it. There’s a cracking cast, including Maxwell Martin, Sophie Willan from Alma’s Not Normal, and Dipo Ola as an unwitting detective. Towards the end, the overarching mystery (what happened to Ludwig’s twin?) slams into place.
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Mar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
None of this would work without Mitchell, who aside from being quite funny here has expressive, ever-calculating and -deducing eyes that make him believable as a detective. And creator and writer Mark Brotherhood (Death In Paradise) builds a nice, cozy rapport with John’s work crew.
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The GuardianNov 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It is a very gentle six episodes. There is a lot of explanation of every plot point and every twist – people point at documents during closeups of documents, look very carefully at names on office doors and lay out timelines as if viewers have only just discovered clocks – but its amiability predisposes you to suspend the vast amounts of disbelief required to make the thing work.
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