“Like West Side Story, but with a complete lack of romance and much more rain”.
Police Under Pressure, BBC2
“Happy Valley, with its serial killing and rape, was marginally less depressing than its real-life, far more uneventful counterpart”.
Adam Sweeting, The Telegraph
“This excellent but depressing two-part documentary isn’t about the EDL, it’s about the police. Who are clearly very aware that they’ve got cameras on them”.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian
“Everyone in the BBC2 documentary Police Under Pressure was so downcast that they made the police drama Happy Valley look like escapist fantasy”.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“It was like West Side Story, but with a complete lack of romance and much more rain. And with far more factions”.
Alex Hardy, The Times
“Hill Street Blues never left me feeling so blue”.
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
Murdered By My Boyfriend, BBC3
“The title told you how it would end, which embedded an undertone of impending tragedy which rose steadily to a deafening volume”.
Adam Sweeting, The Telegraph
“Murdered by My Boyfriend was compelling enough to enthral an older audience and realistic when it counted”.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“Where some recent televisual portrayals of violence within relationships have been rather euphemistic…this was a no-holds-barred picture of savagery”.
Alex Hardy, The Times
“I normally complain that the “information” element of a drama is getting in the way of the story. In this case I worried that the message hadn’t been made clear enough”.
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
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