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Positive:
15
Mixed:
1
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Critic Reviews
The GuardianOct 30, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The performances of Bean and Graham are, even though we have come to expect brilliance from them both, astonishing. So, too, are those from everyone in smaller roles, none of which is underwritten or sketchy, and who thicken the drama into something more profoundly moving and enraging at every turn. Time well spent.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
TV Guide MagazineApr 1, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Wrenching and raw, this three-part drama is Time well spent, if you can bear to watch. [1 - 21 Apr 2024, p.5]
The TelegraphOct 30, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It’s wonderfully cast. Ramsey (The Last of Us, Game of Thrones) and Whittaker (Doctor Who) relish shucking off the roles they are best known for. Lawrance, with the grimmest storyline, brings tinges of Greek tragedy. The men are well sketched but peripheral to the least male drama McGovern has ever written. It’s also thrillingly paced. Perhaps too thrillingly. One of the wonders of the first series was Bean’s lonely stillness. Three leads means three narratives.
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The TimesOct 30, 2023
The GuardianOct 30, 2023
Season 2 Review:
With three characters to attend to, it does feel as if the writers’ attention is being stretched too thinly as they try to cover slightly too much ground, from how you deal with an unexpected period in a cell without sanitary towels to the intergenerational effects of abuse and neglect. But, like the first series, it brings attention to a terrible problem and demands a search for answers.
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The IndependentOct 30, 2023
The TelegraphOct 30, 2023
Season 1 Review:
We learned far more about Bean’s character than Graham’s. McGovern didn’t reveal his hand – we know that Eric will be forced to compromise himself in an attempt to save his son from harm, but we don’t know how Mark will be drawn into that. It’s not going to end well, is it? But at least we get to watch two actors at the very top of their game.
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