Butterfly; The Cry

“It is a wonderfully delicate drama that covers new ground carefully and features fully realised characters at war with their instincts, intellects and worse or better natures. Allied to uniformly brilliant performances, this is truthful, beautiful and powerful stuff.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Butterfly brought trans experiences, often cast to the margins of television drama, to the centre of mainstream Sunday-night television. It was an unarguably well-intended, carefully calibrated pushback against lazy prejudice or rushes to judgment, never soft-pedalling the difficulties for everyone involved.”
Gabriel Tate, The Telegraph

“This could easily have seemed crass and exploitative, or stiflingly over-earnest. But veteran writer Tony Marchant has created a warm, flawed and believable family trying to cope with an extremely complex situation.”
Jeff Robson, The i

“Episode one commanded my attention throughout. Writer Tony Marchant knows how to channel complex subjects into engrossing drama.”
James Jackson, The Times

“This is not a story that stands up to close scrutiny, but what seemed to be yet another abducted-child drama with Madeleine McCann undertones has, eventually, turned into a richer mystery altogether.”
James Jackson, The Times