Sunny Nights; Concorde Crash: Days That Shocked the World

“For much of the first 20 minutes I found Sunny Nights surprisingly grating. Will Forte is basically playing the same irritating milksop he played as Jack in Netflix’s The Four Seasons, and though D’Arcy Carden (whom viewers of The Good Place will recognise) is something of a life force here, her character is also annoying. But I have faith in Australian comedy (though this is more a dark dramedy) to deliver something different. Besides, the cold-open first scene in which a huge crocodile ambled out of the Sydney drainage system in an industrial landscape then on to a golf course where it promptly exploded, guts flying, was so surreal it was irresistible.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Sunny Nights initially presents itself as a frothy romp, buoyed by two funny imported leads and plenty of spritzy banter. It took me a little while to fully appreciate that, beneath the playful surface, this is fundamentally a crime story – one told with a disarmingly light comedic touch that nudges emphasis away from plausibility to sheer enjoyability.”
Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian

“There’s a fascinating story here, but this show covered only half of it. What is not disputed is that, as the plane took off with 100 passengers and nine crew on board, sheets of flame roared from the two engines on the left wing. Unable to generate enough thrust to stay airborne, the Concorde dropped out of the sky, killing everyone on board and four people on the ground…What this account ignored was the discovery by British investigative journalist David Rose that Air France engineers, servicing the plane four days earlier, had failed to replace a vital component known as a spacer, which kept the wheels in alignment. Without this part, the plane wobbled on the runway like a faulty supermarket trolley — something that was evident from the sooty tyre tracks along the tarmac. The documentary showed these tracks but said nothing about them. Neither did it remark that the French president Jacques Chirac was in a jumbo jet on an adjacent taxiway, and that the flailing Concorde might easily have veered into it. Surely that was worth mentioning?”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail