15 Aug '12

“A story twisting itself into knots to reach it destination. If this is optimism, I’m depressed.”
Matt Baylis, The Express

“For all McGovern’s great writing, the brilliance of Accused was in its casting. You couldn’t pick two more manly actors than Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.”
Tim Walker, The Independent

“Sean Bean brilliantly tore down his image as an action villain and refused to play Tracie either for laughs or pathos. Yet for all the dignity he brought Tracie, she looked like a niughtmarish, borderline misogynistic, parody of a woman.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“McGovern and co-writer Shaun Duggan handcuff you, the viewer, lead you along a maze of corridors towards the conclusion, gently at first, but with a growing sense of urgency, and of doom, pulling you rudely towards something terrible.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“It is still only half an idea, middlingly executed, but given time it might settle into something more watchable. Outnumbered, though, it ain’t.”
Tim Walker, The Independent

“Despite some obvious attempts at diversity, it is a hopelessly polite middle-class affair.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“There’s a new batch in. Just your average bakers; you know, all ages, classes, races, sexes, sexualities etc. They must have worked hard to come up with this lot, to show that baking’s not just for vicar’s wives (though one of those slips through the net as well).”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian 

“It is puerile, rude, often inappropriate, sometimes plain wrong, and absolutely properly hilarious. Funniest thing for ages.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian