Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
PBS | BBC Two | Release Date: August 28, 2023
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Observer (UK)Barbara EllenSep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review: Overall, Bluemel has delivered another stark masterclass in history, memory and emotion. Read full review
100
The TimesCarol MidgleySep 29, 2023
Season 1 Review: It is history in the round: unhurried, vivid, human, told without judgment or interruption. .... Shocking, fascinating TV. Read full review
100
The TelegraphAnita Singh Aug 29, 2023
Season 1 Review: It is a superb piece of work, not merely a litany of horrors but an opportunity for those involved to look back. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 29, 2023
Season 1 Review: The people interviewed by director James Bluemel ("Once Upon a Time in Iraq") for this BBC production are extraordinarily likable, introspective, rueful and sometimes ruefully amused. Read full review
80
The GuardianJack SealeAug 29, 2023
Season 1 Review: By marking how the Troubles affected individuals, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland finds profound wider truths. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydAug 29, 2023
Season 1 Review: The strength of the series lies in how it honors those who have come to talk about them. If not a full accounting of the era’s politics and atrocities, it offers something equally valuable, an anecdotally authoritative, emotional history, as its subjects grapple with who they were then from the standpoint of who they are now. Read full review
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