South Riding: Season 1
  • Network: BBC-1 , PBS , BBC
  • Series Premiere Date: May 1, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
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Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    May 2, 2011
    60
    For fans of the canon, South Riding is "Masterpiece" comfort food, enjoyable enough in the moment, but melting away to nothing but sugar and fat by morning.
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  2. Miami Herald
    May 2, 2011
    80
    South Riding has everything you could want from a Masterpiece event: perfect period details, a forlornly gray surf, a swelling soundtrack, disputes over crunchy-gravel real estate, whistling trains and black-tie dinners in hotels, a believable and compelling story involving multiple characters and plots and a faithfulness to its original material that allows for a textured, even sorrowful, bleakness.
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    May 2, 2011
    80
    South Riding creates memorable characters, particularly Burton and Carne, and it's beautifully filmed.
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