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  • Sep 26, 2022
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  • Sep 26, 2022
Inside Man (2022)

Summary A misunderstanding between vicar Harry Watling (David Tennant) and a math tutor (Dolly Wells) leads journalist Beth Davenport (Lydia West) to American death row inmate Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci) in this drama from Steven Moffat. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 26 Sep 2022 and in the US on Netflix on 31 Oct 2022]

  • Netflix
  • Sep 26, 2022
  • Netflix
  • Sep 26, 2022
Inside Man (2022)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 26, 2022
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.1
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Summary A misunderstanding between vicar Harry Watling (David Tennant) and a math tutor (Dolly Wells) leads journalist Beth Davenport (Lydia West) to American death row inmate Jefferson Grieff (Stanley Tucci) in this drama from Steven Moffat. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 26 Sep 2022 and in the US on Netflix on 31 Oct 2022]

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Episode 1 • Sep 26, 2022
Episode #1.1
The lives of a prisoner on death row, a journalist looking for a story, a vicar in a sleepy English town and a maths tutor trapped in a cellar intertwine in a deadly way.
Episode 2 • Sep 27, 2022
Episode #1.2
Condemned prisoner Jefferson Grieff has a mission for journalist Beth Davenport, and vicar Harry Watling faces an impossible choice.
Episode 3 • Oct 3, 2022
Episode #1.3
Harry's dilemma intensifies as his family's fate teeters, but his resolve to do right remains unwavering. Beth Davenport encounters a sinister message from one of Jefferson Grieff's allies. In the cellar, Janice's despair deepens.
Episode 4 • Oct 4, 2022
Episode #1.4
As chaos unfolds, Jefferson Grieff faces execution, Janice Fife's time in the cellar runs out, and Harry Watling battles to protect his family while staying on the right path.

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
64
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
64
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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80
Oct 11, 2022
Quibbles aside there's no denying that Inside Man is engaging television, and having seen further episodes beyond the series opener, that doesn't let up. In fact, as things progress and the story becomes more clearly defined, it's very much to the series' benefit. Episode 2 feels like a step up and is well worth sticking around for, even if you're unconvinced by the first.
By James Hibbs FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 11, 2022
Inside Man is typical Moffat fare. Rollickingly confident, meaty, funny, clever (if not quite as clever, on a line by line basis, as it appears).
By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.1
33% Positive
3 Ratings
33% Mixed
3 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
4.1
33% Positive
3 Ratings
33% Mixed
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33% Negative
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60
Oct 11, 2022
This arch meditation on human beings' capacity to kill is audacious, clever and at times frustrating because things are often too daft even for knockabout noir. However, it's worth it if only for the beautifully contained performance of Stanley Tucci as the charismatic "death row detective" Jefferson Grieff.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 11, 2022
Inside Man’s central scenario is unsatisfyingly confected. ... With likeable performances and quippy characters, Inside Man is a weeknight crowd pleaser. Just don’t expect the moral depth, or proficient plotting, of some of its rivals in the emergent “men making mistake after mistake” genre.
By Nick Hilton FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 11, 2022
The strands are convoluted and little appears to make much sense – there is rather a lot of trust required of the viewer that master TV showrunner Moffat will pull the whole thing off. Thanks to wonderful performances from its four main players, and particularly to Tucci at last back in a creepy, sinister role after a long stretch of playing loveable characters (and stretching pasta in Italian farmhouses), it is watchable enough for me to commit to the next three episodes to find out if he can.
By Emily Baker FULL REVIEW
30
Nov 2, 2022
It’s all patently ridiculous. If it were ridiculous in an entertaining way, that would be one thing. But Tennant’s side of the story is just so insane that you’ll be too distracted by it to be entertained by Tucci’s side.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
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