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C.B. Strike
6 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 27, 2017
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6.8
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
65
43% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 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.
Throughout, the disparity between Strike's melancholy disposition and robin's sunnier outlook makes for enjoyable teamwork. C.B. Strike may not break new ground in procedural storytelling, but it stays refreshingly true to character. [28 May - 10 Jun 2018, p.16]
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.
With all the freighted backstory and psychic wounds, it’s hard for the sexy protagonists, as for us, to care about the MacGuffin.
It was all over the place, a meandering, cliché-ridden muddle that sacrificed plot for the protagonists’ thwarted love story. If you had watched it for the first time last night you wouldn’t have had a clue what was going on.
The phrase that recurred in my mind as I watched C.B. Strike was "not enough": not enough plot, not enough characterization, not enough suspense, not enough of its own DNA. But the pang of "not enough" was most keen when it came to the scenes between Burke and his co-star Holliday Grainger, who faultlessly embodies the earnest, thrill-seeking Robin.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
6.8
72% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
16% Mixed
4 Ratings
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12% Negative
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Production Company:
- BBC One
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Bronte Film and TV
Initial Release Date: Aug 27, 2017
Number of seasons: 6 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
