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Tin Star

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Tin Star

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Amazon Prime | Prime Video | Sky Atlantic | Release Date: September 7, 2017

Summary: The arrival of a new oil refinery led by Elizabeth Bradshaw (Christina Hendricks) in the Canadian town of Little Big Bear brings new crime for police chief Jim Worth (Tim Roth) to deal with and also causes his own secrets to be revealed in this drama created by Rowan Joffé.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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The Times Carol Midgley

Dec 11, 2020

Season 3 Review: It is still off its head, but it seems to have been injected with new energy, spiky northern wit and a lean, lively script. Before I knew it I had watched all six episodes. Read full review

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The Telegraph Chris Bennion

Dec 11, 2020

Season 3 Review: Tin Star deserves a wider audience, but there’s no doubting that a short, brutal end feels about right. Read full review

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The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Dec 10, 2020

Season 3 Review: While the series is occasionally daft, in a way that jars with its viciousness, Ryan is the real deal, chilling and menacing, a threat that the Worths may not be able to shoot away. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Danette Chavez

Sep 29, 2017

Season 1 Review: Joffé drops the thread before it gets anywhere, distracted by another shiny object or revenge-thriller reference. Though it has some lofty goals, the shine quickly comes off of Tin Star. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Sep 28, 2017

Season 1 Review: With a tin ear for nuance and a heavy hand with characterization and plotting, this contrived and unconvincing crime drama set amid the splendor of Canada's Rockies reminds us how easily show like Fargo or Ozark could go off track if we ever felt a step ahead of the predictable action. [2-15 Oct 2017, p.15]

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The Hollywood Reporter

Inkoo Kang

Sep 28, 2017

Season 1 Review: Tin Star's attempts to out-bloody its predecessors backfire because the brutality is too cartoonish to take seriously. ... The more blood the series sheds, the less weight the violence seems to carry. ... None of the female characters are given much depth in the first five installments. But their struggles are still preferable to the umpteenth iteration of "Blokes Behaving Badly." Read full review

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The Times Carol Midgley

Jan 7, 2020

Season 2 Review: Tin Star's problem at the end of the previous series was that you couldn't care less about the characters and its problem now is exactly the same. It is trying hard for a surreal Twin Peaks/ Fargo vibe and could be quite funny. ... Sometimes less is more. A riot, yes, but I don't have the energy for this. Read full review

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IainOfToronto

Feb 1, 2020

Tim Roth pretty much at the top of his game.

Superb story line.

Very believable support cast. Great settings and locations.

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lbolen

Mar 4, 2021

I live close to the region where this story is based...makes it hard to overlook the fact that small towns like this don’t have a police chief...it’s RCMP.

The whole story-line off-kilter, sure oil brings in money and changes a small town, but this dramatization is way too far off theI live close to the region where this story is based...makes it hard to overlook the fact that small towns like this don’t have a police chief...it’s RCMP.

The whole story-line off-kilter, sure oil brings in money and changes a small town, but this dramatization is way too far off the mark...the story line could be so much better; sorry! Cant get into the series, only made it about 20-minutes into 1st episode.… Expand

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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Docview

Apr 19, 2021

Shows some initial promise but then disappoints. Plot is essentially silly and it just ends a few people killing each other. Third season is the worst, absolute tosh.

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Pleiades

Sep 17, 2021

Absolutely diabolical mishmash of Tarantino-esque pointless gratuitous violence, pseudo-Fargo shenanigans and some sort of bizarre British comedy sketch show...

Starts well enough with the beautiful Canadian scenery in full effect... but then the awful Tim Roth slouches in as theAbsolutely diabolical mishmash of Tarantino-esque pointless gratuitous violence, pseudo-Fargo shenanigans and some sort of bizarre British comedy sketch show...

Starts well enough with the beautiful Canadian scenery in full effect... but then the awful Tim Roth slouches in as the unbelievable-in-any-way supposed 'cop'. An alcoholic, socio-psychopath that suffers no ill effects from his condition and manages to get away with breaking the law at any and all times with no repercussions whatsoever...

It's not worth going into all the ways this show is effed up, it really isn't. Almost worth seeing a couple of episodes though, as you'll know how it's going to go straight away: Badly, and bound to get worse.

The star of the show was the mansion in Season Two, but only because it's in Black Summer S2 as well ;-)

Avoid, or suffer. It's up to you...… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: December 10, 2020
- No episode information is currently available for this season
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: January 24, 2019
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 7, 2017