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Positive:
14
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Sep 18, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Gold rises to the top of the genre for its keen understanding of pace and character, and the unique ability to weave various far-flung threads into a cohesive whole. It’s not easy, but they make it look that way, and in the process they’ve created one of the best crime shows of the decade.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A major flaw, however, is the relentless, clunking “likes of us!” speechifying about class/unfairness. Granted, it’s set in Thatcherite times, but the repetition borders on the farcical. Still, potent performances and no-frills storytelling deliver a series with grit and shine.
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Sep 14, 2023
Season 1 Review:
From robbery ringleader Micky (Adam Nagaitis) to the high-level fence Kenneth Noye (Jack Lowden, of "Slow Horses") to the likes of businessman Gordon Parry (Sean Harris) and the crooked solicitor Edwyn Cooper (Dominic Cooper), who start laundering the money and buying up the waterfront. They're all vile, deliciously so. The cop-craft as practiced by the team of Bonneville, Spencer and Elliot is electric, never mind convincing.
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The GuardianJun 15, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It would be unfair to fault a consistently entertaining TV drama for falling short of the gritty and gobsmacking truth. The Gold is also partially redeemed by a finale that manages to cleverly wrap up loose narrative ends, while acknowledging that the full story is yet to be told – and likely never can be
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The IndependentJun 9, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The wash of creative licence and composite characters dulls the edge of this second instalment of The Gold, which might have been better off just focusing on the rise and fall of Palmer and Noye, men whose stories have all the drama of a great crime saga, just without any of the convenient structural neatness.
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