White Heat

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Season 1
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    May 8, 2012
    80
    White Heat is a bold, fabulously written (if at times overbearing) chronicle of the political and social changes which sweep through Britain beginning in the mid-1960s.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    May 4, 2012
    80
    After only one episode it's clear that the more we learn about each of them, the more we will want to know.
  3. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Maysa Hattab
    May 9, 2012
    60
    As White Heat covers so much historical ground--and offers a range of aging makeup effects--it suffers on occasion from a lack of humour.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    May 8, 2012
    50
    Nothing here is especially hot, perhaps, but compared with the best period dramas currently on TV, it is pretty pallid.
  6. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    May 9, 2012
    40
    White Heat proves to be a warmed-over and tepid mishmash of changing-times clichés.

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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. MarcDoyle
    May 9, 2012
    4
    As an avid fan of the 10pm Wednesday BBCAmerican timeslot - aka "Dramaville" - I was fired up for White Heat. But the first episode justAs an avid fan of the 10pm Wednesday BBCAmerican timeslot - aka "Dramaville" - I was fired up for White Heat. But the first episode just lacked. Lacked passion, enthusiasm, and anything compelling to make me stick around. The main character - during the "look-back" sequences - is mildly interesting, but her older incarnation is completely devoid of personality. The "player" guy in the flat is not nearly charismatic enough to carry his role. And the foreign-born student is sympathetic, but not enough of his story was planted in the first episode to make one interested. This is the mistake that many dramas make. If you can't interest the viewer out of the gates, you're going to lose him.… Full Review »
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