Alicia I love this movie so much

IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Blucher One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

rose-singhdeoo No moments that didn't capture my attention! Very good acting and heaps intense! Really well done!

Jake Bergen This is a well acted show with a plot that kept me interested, but the long, drawn out lulls grew tiresome. They could have made the show significantly better (and a number of episodes shorter) by just cutting out long, slow shots that cut back and forth to people thinking that were likely meant to build suspense but did the opposite by getting boring, and added nothing to character development. Sometimes the show seemed that it couldn't decide what it wanted to be, there is one episode that came across as a medical drama and was completely inconsistent with the other episodes and added almost nothing to the story. Good show, worth watching, but is made better if you can fast forward the tedious bits.

symmachos I really enjoyed the first season of this show - the casting, the dialogue, the plot development, the photography, the creepy & foreboding atmosphere. The second season also started off well, but then things got awfully bogged down. I fully expected the story to be finished by the final episode of that season, so I felt badly cheated when it ended on a cliffhanger. Nevertheless, even after the long wait for the third season, I still found myself curious enough to see how everything worked out. Unfortunately, the third season is the weakest of all. It's excruciatingly slow in pace, with many long silent takes, supporting storylines that go nowhere, and what seemed to me (as an American) to be absurd lapses in procedure. Maybe things are different in the UK, but over here a confessed serial killer (especially one so physically formidable) would not be allowed into an interrogation room without being well restrained. (Not to mention what happened afterward at the psychiatric facility!) Now that I've seen all three seasons, I still think this is high-quality long-form TV, but for me it can't compare with such other recent thrillers as The Bridge (original Danish/Swedish version), the first season of True Detective, or the ongoing Icelandic thriller, Trapped. One final point: I notice a sharp split in these IMDb reviews about Gillian Anderson's performance. Like many others, I was somewhat annoyed by the increasing breathiness of her voice over the three seasons, but I still find her a riveting presence on screen, and her name at the top of a cast list will still be a major draw for me.

terrystatz I watched the first 2 episodes. After the first one I liked it. There is some female nudity in the first episode, which I hoped was just there to capture male viewers' interest to continue the series. After watching the second episode, I decided to quit. A major problem is that Gillian Anderson's character is not likable. Neither is Jamie Dornan's character, and you need someone to like in every show. Peripheral characters are better, but none stood out. Also, a little female nudity doesn't bother me, but the scenes of the female victim's naked body for long periods in the 2nd episode, along with a sex scene showing partial female nudity (but no male nudity), was too much. Yes, you see a tiny bit of Jamie Dornan's backside in one episode, but this show definitely caters to men. And back to Gillian Anderson, as another reviewer wrote, she needs to extend her range. If they had cut back on the nudity, and had a good, likeable main character, I would have stuck with it. The plot was interesting, but not enough.