28 Nov '11

“There is so much more to the real Fox News that just an immature, superficial sensibility – this is the channel that pretty well invented the obfuscation technique.”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian

“It’s The Daily Show, only deadlier.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“The roots of the practice went a long way back, possibly to the first time people saw a corpse moving because of gases and thought it must be alive.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

 “It doesn’t actually matter, because the formula is starting to show through the chinks of Sarah Lund’s lovely knitwear, and it’s fairly clear to us all, I think, that whoever they suspect now, we’ll have forgotten about in four episodes’ time.”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian

“The risk here is not just of diminishing returns but of ordinariness: when did a British drama last not boast a serial killer?”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“Many of these new techniques involve an equally unsettling splice between established fact and hopeful experiment; they seem to work but nobody is yet entirely sure way in all cases. And that left you wondering a little exactly who it was that could be said to be on the medical frontline here.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“Last night, it was a Charles Allen’s turn – a very well connected millionaire indeed (he seems to be on the board of pretty much everything) and it was difficult to suppress a spirit of contradiction, despite his genuinely emotional response to the hardship he encountered.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“It was an episode where the case dovetailed neatly into the dramas facing all the main characters. We were given something to care about and it’s just a pity that someone had to die to make that happen.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express