“This was an admirable unflinchingness in a programme that I first feared might be little more than a soft-focus soap.”
“The finale was well timed to coincide with Remembrance Day, tackling as it did the fragility of postwar peace in the minds of those who served. This was an admirable unflinchingness in a programme that I first feared might be little more than a soft-focus soap.”
Alex Hardy, The Times
“Perhaps Wallander, Taggart and all those other tough, grizzled detectives were once like Sidney Chambers in Grantchester: young, dumb and full of concern for his community.”
Ellen E Jones, The Independent
“I wouldn’t mind if Grantchester went on for ever.”
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph
“This wildly patronising schools-programme approach to the subject only reinforced the idea that viewers are not even up to separating Downton Abbey from real history, let alone coming up with practical solutions to the poverty gap. It treats the economic divide like climate change: a natural force too big for any one of us to deal with but, you know, someone should.”
Julia Raeside, The Guardian
“Each helping of the sitcom is like punching someone in the face while being punched in the face yourself. You become numb to everything, including the jokes.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express
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