Annika; The Defeated; Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes

“Amid the potboiler silliness, Walker’s powerful performance suggested Annika had potential. As the six-part season continues, one hopes the monologues to camera are dialled down and future storylines less far-fetched.”
Ed Power, The i

“As we know by now, Walker has that oddly watchable thing going on, and it’s becoming tediously predictable for reviews to point out how good she is. She has that distinctive face — a kind of lived-in, hangdog attractiveness — and a rhythm to her delivery of lines that sounds real, with slight pauses or hesitations mid-sentence, as if she’s thinking up the words on the spot-. Annika allows Walker to let loose a warm sense of humour that you feel comes naturally to her.”
James Jackson, The Times

“I don’t know what crimes are to be investigated next by this ludicrous drain on Caledonian public finances,but the dialogue is so droll and the performances so charming I’m in for what fisherfolk call the long haul..”
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian 

“The Defeated’s most notable quality is the German perspective it brings to familiar history. The unrelenting gloom is meanwhile likely to strike a winning register with fans of Scandi noir (The Defeated is from the producers behind Scandi classic The Bridge). There’s little humour or light relief. But The Defeated serves up a new twist on the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, and weaves in a compelling mystery to boot.”
Ed Power, The Telegraph

“It gives us the well-trodden story of his arrest, trial and conviction. The result is grubbily gripping. But it is also tawdry and almost entirely morally compromised. Nilsen was a gleeful self-mythologist, who orchestrated his crimes with sick showmanship. And it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that he would be thrilled to have his own special on the world’s biggest streaming service. After finishing it, I felt like I had been standing thigh-deep in cold silage.” 
Alex Diggins, The Telegraph