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Critic Reviews
The GuardianJan 2, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The wildly incongruous but perfectly chosen rock soundtrack, the cool freeze-frames, the fist fights, the banter and of course the battle scenes are all unashamedly exciting – and the Sicily landing, with Mayne’s men dodging Italian bullets under powdery grey moonlight, is as cool as hell. It’s a thrill to watch O’Connell and his boys charge on.
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The TimesJan 2, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Several of his new recruits are compelling in a brutal kind of way, with Mark Rowley a hilariously unhinged Jock McDiarmid, and Theo Barklem-Biggs’s Reg Seekings getting a particularly disturbing storyline later on. But it’s the contrast between Mayne and his new superior, Gwilym Lee’s suave Bill Stirling (brother of the SAS “midwife” David, now languishing in a prison with a beard), that distinguishes the early episodes.
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The TelegraphDec 19, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The series picks up around midway through when Stirling comes back into the picture – both Bill (Swindells) and his brother David (Lee), who is set up as the stuffed shirt trying to rein in the vagabonds, but who ends up in some of the best two-handers with O’Connell. Theo Barklem-Briggs’s Reg Seekings gets a well-earned storyline to himself, as does newcomer Jack Barton.
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The GuardianOct 31, 2022
Season 1 Review:
I thoroughly enjoyed SAS: Rogue Heroes. It is funnier than Peaky Blinders, which dragged itself into the doldrums for its final series, though this still has plenty of its predecessor’s vim. It is a bracing way to spend a Sunday evening, and, to borrow the parlance of one of its leads, a lot of fun, old boy. Indeed.
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Radio TimesOct 27, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It's Peaky Blinders in a new set of clothes, and while it is a worthy successor to that show, it has yet to reach that series's heights nor plumb the depths of its characters in quite the same way. But the dialogue is razor-sharp, the performances entertaining and the action well-staged.
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iJan 2, 2025
Season 2 Review:
SAS Rogue Heroes is, frankly, subtle in the way an earthquake is subtle, but then that’s rather the point. War is loud, and war is hell. It is also, from the perspective of this series opener, an absolute hoot. It looks like it’s going to be a bumpy ride, chaps. Strap in.
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The IndependentOct 31, 2022
Season 1 Review:
For people raised on a diet of Call of Duty and sub-Tarantino knock-offs, SAS Rogue Heroes will feel like a breath of fresh air. For others, it will feel like an indulgent and messy rewriting of recent(ish) history, where each sequence has a 50:50 chance of hitting a bum note. This self-conscious melange of good and bad produces, unsurprisingly, a product of variegated quality.
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