Say Nothing

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 14, 2024
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23

Critic Reviews

  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Nov 14, 2024
    60
    The problem is that, outside of an episode focused entirely on the 203-day hunger strike that Dolours and Marian staged in prison, Say Nothing keeps trying to also incorporate pieces of the larger story in ways that dilute the show’s overall impact, even when individual scenes and performances work well.
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Nov 14, 2024
    60
    It is a beautifully acted interrogation of the power of silence, the loyalty it proves and the burden it brings. However, it feels overly sympathetic to its main characters – the sisters, Hughes and Adams.
  3. The Times
    Reviewed by: Sean O’Neill
    Nov 14, 2024
    60
    Where the book is immensely detailed and nuanced, the series is necessarily dramatic, occasionally comic and at times glamorous, although the glamour fades as the miserable weariness of violence persists. Yet there is something discomforting in seeing such recent, unresolved history dressed up as entertainment.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Nov 13, 2024
    60
    As potent as it frequently is and as necessary as it consistently is, the show can’t always reconcile all of its threads in a way that feels cumulative instead of scattered.