Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

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Season 1
Metascore
88

Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    100
    Overall, Bluemel has delivered another stark masterclass in history, memory and emotion.
  2. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Sep 29, 2023
    100
    It is history in the round: unhurried, vivid, human, told without judgment or interruption. .... Shocking, fascinating TV.
  3. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Aug 29, 2023
    100
    It is a superb piece of work, not merely a litany of horrors but an opportunity for those involved to look back.
  5. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Aug 29, 2023
    80
    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.
  6. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Jack Seale
    Aug 29, 2023
    80
    By marking how the Troubles affected individuals, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland finds profound wider truths.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Aug 29, 2023
    80
    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.