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- 2019
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- Acorn TV
- 2019
- TV-14
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Summary Based on a real case, Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton's (Martin Clunes) investigation into the fatal attack on a French college student leads to connection to several other murders and an attempted murder cases in the surrounding London area.
- 2019
- TV-14
- Acorn TV
- 2019
- TV-14
- Acorn TV
Manhunt (2019)
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 6, 2019
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6.2
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Summary Based on a real case, Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton's (Martin Clunes) investigation into the fatal attack on a French college student leads to connection to several other murders and an attempted murder cases in the surrounding London area.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
68
75% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
25% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Manhunt is back, and it makes for superb, compulsive viewing.
It wasn't a hugely eventful opening episode (there are four in total, showing on consecutive nights this week), but its strength was in resisting gaudy reconstructions of the rapes or glamming up Sutton's role.
Clunes felt right, clutching his flask of coffee and delivering an authentic, contained performance of a decent, unflashy grafter. ... It takes a very good actor to make a real, do-it-by-the-book detective, who isn't a hard drinker and doesn't shoot from the hip, come alive on screen. I still think it's too soon, but it is in responsible hands.
Absorbing. ... Manhunt practically defines the procedural in its documentary-like focus on methodology. [4-17 Mar 2019, p.11]
Manhunt’s navigations of clues and dead ends at times are enough to keep this pot simmering if not boiling. Nor is there anything wrong with Clunes’ lead performance, which unfortunately is in service to a not-so-greater whole.
While some of the dialogue was clunky and the pace was rather slow moving, Manhunt’s second outing was as solid and competent a watch as the police work it depicts.
This sober, responsible production that has even managed to avoid the temptation of hyping it as Martin Clunes’s first foray into straight drama and aggrandising him or the production at their expense.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
80% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.2
80% Positive
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Production Company:
- Buffalo Pictures
- Magellanic Media
- Grace Mount Media
- Great Point Media
- ITV - Independent Television
Initial Release Date: Jan 6, 2019
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Royal Television Society, UK
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
