“The torch may finally have passed from Anthony Hopkins as the screen’s most profoundly unsettling and instantly-absorbed-by-the-cultural-imagination serial killer”
Nocturne, Apple TV
“It has taken a while, but I think the torch may finally have passed from Anthony Hopkins as the screen’s most profoundly unsettling and instantly-absorbed-by-the-cultural-imagination serial killer. From Hannibal’s hitherto unfailing hands it has been thrown to Stephen Graham.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“Walter is not suavely urbane like Lecter, more blue-collar, but he has the darkly manipulative tricks, the way of somehow dictating events in the outside world. With all traces of Scouse gone, Graham here speaks in a gentle American voice, choosing to deploy a strange little hooting laugh at odds with a burly frame clearly capable of brute acts.”
James Jackson, The Times
“When the series first aired in 2021, it had a unique concept that helped it stand apart from other slayed-in-the-sunshine set-ups. Jean’s expertise in brocante, the world of second-hand treasures from Regency furniture to Resistance medals, helped her decode the clues scattered in the bric-a-brac of the victim’s homes. It’s a neat conceit. But her character has faded almost to the point of invisibility. Instead of concentrating on her eccentric friends, the show needs to discover new things about Jean herself.”
Christopher Stevens, The Daily Mail
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