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  • Jan 1, 2024
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  • Jan 1, 2024
Mr Bates vs the Post Office

Summary Alan Bates (Toby Jones) was one of the 700+ sub-postmasters who were accused of stealing money from the British Post Office. In a 20-years long fight, he and his allies seek to prove faulty software was the real cause in this four-part miniseries. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 1 Jan 2024 and in the US on Masterpiece on PBS...

  • PBS
  • Jan 1, 2024
  • PBS
  • Jan 1, 2024
Mr Bates vs the Post Office
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 1, 2024
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Alan Bates (Toby Jones) was one of the 700+ sub-postmasters who were accused of stealing money from the British Post Office. In a 20-years long fight, he and his allies seek to prove faulty software was the real cause in this four-part miniseries. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 1 Jan 2024 and in the US on Masterpiece on PBS...

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100
Mar 25, 2024
Stirring stuff, and seemingly like so much of our post these days, long overdue.
By Gerard Gilbert FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 8, 2024
The sweet-faced Jones — if you loved him in “Detectorists” you should love him here, in a part not a million miles away — stars as Alan, the quietly stubborn leader of the resistance, and the hub that connects the series’ several stories. .... Above all, “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office” is an indictment of bureaucratic arrogance and the familiar reluctance of institutions to admit, and when admitted, to rectify, mistakes.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 5, 2024
The hero here, as one can assume from the title, is Alan Bates, played by a wonderfully measured Toby Jones. .... Righteous indignation is the central mission of "Mr. Bates vs. the Post Office," and one can become anxious despising characters as much as one will during this four-part procedural.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 25, 2024
Perhaps Hughes's main achievement is in making it so discomfiting to watch. It is still scarcely believable that this happened in modern Britain, that good people actually went to prison for things they hadn't done.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 25, 2024
Jones, all cheer and steel, is simply perfect as the little man who proves undefeatable. Indeed, the many familiar faces all feel ideally cast, from Monica Dolan as Jo Hamilton, whose plain-as-a-pikestaff decency was weaponised against her, to Lia Williams as Post Office Ltd’s Paula Vennells.
By Jasper Rees FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 25, 2024
The Post Office scandal has been so long-running that it can feel as if the staggering injustice at the heart of it all has been lost in the dense forest of the details. This makes it human again, and simplifies the case for outrage that this was done to so many innocent people.
By Rebecca Nicholson FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 25, 2024
Through odd creative decisions and the technical nature of the intrigue, Mr Bates vs the Post Office ends up being a human drama that could use a bit more drama.
By Nick Hilton FULL REVIEW

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