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  • Aug 28, 2022
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  • Aug 28, 2022
Ridley

Summary Retired detective inspector Alex Ridley (Adrian Dunbar) is back consulting on cases with DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh) in this British crime drama created by Paul Matthew Thompson. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 28 August 2022 and in the US on PBS on 18 Jun 2023]

Created By: Jonathan Fisher, Paul Matthew Thompson

  • PBS
  • Aug 28, 2022
  • PBS
  • Aug 28, 2022
Ridley
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 28, 2022
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
57
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Summary Retired detective inspector Alex Ridley (Adrian Dunbar) is back consulting on cases with DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh) in this British crime drama created by Paul Matthew Thompson. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 28 August 2022 and in the US on PBS on 18 Jun 2023]

Created By: Jonathan Fisher, Paul Matthew Thompson

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
57
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88% Mixed
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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Mixed
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80
Jun 15, 2023
Ridley is not a show out to break new ground: this is television made unashamedly for the Vera fanbase, but done so with care and quality.
By Rachael Sigee FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 16, 2023
The relatively downscale lead-in to the more ambitious "Endeavour," stars the unlikely Adrian Dunbar as the title character, who is more suggestive of the P.D. James creation Adam Dalgliesh than an aesthete like Morse.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 15, 2023
A solid but hardly exceptional example of the rural mystery, telling its two-part stories with a slow and steady pace, enriched by Dunbar's craggy and unexpected lyrical persona. [12 Jun - 2 Jul 2023, p.6]
By Matt Roush
60
Jun 15, 2023
Ridley as a series isn't bad. If you're missing Vera, it fills the hole perfectly.
By Helen Daly FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 15, 2023
At times, it seems to take itself a bit too seriously – there are few lighter moments, no laughs or sarcasm between friends, family or co-workers, nothing to relieve the sombreness – but, overall (especially, as I’ve said, if we ignore the club singing scenes), it works.
By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 15, 2023
[Erin Shanagher] delivered the strongest performance, at the very end, in a scene soundtracked by Dunbar crooning a Richard Hawley tune. Other than that, though, this was a downbeat police drama with no distinguishing features.
By Anita Singh FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 15, 2023
You can play along with cliché bingo at home. That one case he never solved? Tick. Inexplicable extracurricular hobby for a detective? Tick. Bafflingly Scandinavian interior design? Tick. Individually, none of these things are unpleasant. As with anything that becomes trite, the process of that overuse inevitably begins with a kernel of quality.
By Nick Hilton FULL REVIEW

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