“If you think you have heard everything about hypocritical Christian fundamentalism, the cruelty, venality and greed that burst from this unsparing four-part series will take, if not the biscuit, then certainly the communion wafer”
“Ministry of Evil doesn’t do anything innovative. It sticks to the tradition of letting victims speak with as little interferences as possible, interspersing their accounts with contemporary footage of the perpetrators and letting them condemn themselves out of their own mouths whenever possible.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“If you think you have heard everything about hypocritical Christian fundamentalism, the cruelty, venality and greed that burst from this unsparing four-part series will take, if not the biscuit, then certainly the communion wafer. TV loves stories of cults for their shock value and the availability of wounded survivors to give honest testimonies, and in many ways the pattern here was familiar. We had the slightly hammy reconstructions and the intrusive incidental music in a story that didn’t need embellishing. It worked best with the red-raw accounts of those who were sucked in, isolated from their families and made to believe that this ghastly pair possessed supernatural insight.”
Ben Dowell, The Times
Cuckoo, Channel 5
“Rule One of a good domestic psychodrama is: men, they’re all the same, you can’t trust them. Rule Two: however superficially sane they might seem, all women are mad. Rule Three, and most important of all: every troubled family has a fabulous kitchen. Just once, I’d like to see a drama where the wife is emotionally stable but casually dishonest, and the husband is bursting into tears while comfort-eating an entire packet of Jammy Dodgers. It would make a change.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
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