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- HBO
- Aug 30, 2020
- HBO
- Aug 30, 2020
- HBO
- Aug 30, 2020
- HBO
- Aug 30, 2020
C.B. Strike
Season 3
6 Seasons
Season Premiere: Aug 30, 2020
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
76
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
40% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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This is superb Sunday night viewing, and has a highly crafted, sinister, intriguing and, at times, Satanic quality that should keep you enthralled. Strike: Troubled Blood, in other words, is the BBC at its best.
The characters could be stereotypes, but as imagined by Rowling, adapted and directed by Tom Edge and Sue Tully, and definitively portrayed by Burke and Grainger, they’re fully dimensional.
Strike is a slow-moving caper about a lovable curmudgeon that goes down particularly well on a bleak winter night at the end of another testing year. Forget boy wizards and their broomsticks. Strike: Troubled Blood delivered real escapism in magical quantities.
It’s good, competent meat-and-two-veg noir. Some acting on the undercard is a bit teaky, but there are flavoursome cameos.
Troubled Blood’s epic runtime only accentuates the artifice of the pair [Cormoran and Robin] circling longingly, and when romantic developments do haltingly come, they too have the air of a throwback, namely the carefree English romcoms of the 90s. But it’s not enough to distract us from the thought that really, Strike is a Sunday-night detective like all the others.
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