28 Oct '10

“A sort of highlights compilation which cut out the achingly long stretches where everyone was just sitting in the dark waiting for something to happen…But it wasn’t a film that was interested in questioning the popular narrative of human spirit triumphant.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“The documentary was sadly unsalacious and far more interested in drill heads than the trapped men’s private lives, but the details still impressed.”
Andrew Billen, The Times

“This was a thoughtful glimpse at another very British phenomenon but a flea-ridden, itchy and not very hopeful one.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“To [my companions] it was a deeply disturbing programme about abandoned and mistreated cats… Whereas I’ve seen a quirky and amusing but very human film about mad cat women. Because, like other documentaries in the excellent Wonderland strand, there’s no agenda, it’s left to the viewer to decide: here it is, make of it what you will. And, actually, there is one thing we all agree on: that it’s fabulous.”
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

“Has all the furniture of the traditional police series…the stories, though, are never clichéd, frequently exploring corners of American life where no TV series has ever ventured.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express