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Joel G River, the british series from 2015, is the very best there is -- others may reach the same standard, though very few, but none can surpass this brilliantly crafted and performed limited...
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River is one of those offbeat, magical series that comes...
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River is one of those dramas that takes itself terrifically seriously (see also From Darkness). At its heart it's a crime story, but it's clear writer Abi Morgan wants it to be so much more -...
Nov 20, 2015 · Fri Nov 20 2015 - 17:16. It's rare that the final episode of a drama is as brilliant as the first, but everything about River (BBC One, Tuesday) this week is pitch perfect. The entertainingly...
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River is a six-part British television drama series, created and written by Abi Morgan [1] and starring Stellan Skarsgård and Nicola Walker. It premiered on BBC One on 13 October 2015 and internationally on Netflix on 18 November 2015. [2] . The series is a police procedural.
- Ben Travis
- It was more than just a cop drama. Police dramas are ten-a-penny, especially in the UK – but with its focus on the central character’s declining mental state (and not in the usual ‘troubled but brilliant policeman' kind of way), River immediately established itself as something different.
- The show made you really like Stevie. Nicola Walker as Stevie in River. BBC/Kudos/Nick Briggs. Nicola Walker put in a luminous performance as Stevie, her sparkling back-and-forth with River making for the most enjoyable police duo since the first season of True Detective.
- The DLR was all over it. South Quay DLR station, as seen in River. BBC. The Tube gets a lot of love in London-centric series, but the humble, magical trundle-train sky-track known as the DLR got its due in River.
- It wasn’t afraid to get a bit weird sometimes. The whole ‘more than just a cop drama’ vibe didn’t just come up when the camera showed us the blown-out back of Stevie’s head a few minutes into episode one – the moment things got truly weird for the first time was in the arrival of Eddie Marsan as historic murderer Thomas Cream, aka the Lambeth Poisoner.
River: Created by Abi Morgan. With Stellan Skarsgård, Nicola Walker, Adeel Akhtar, Lesley Manville. John River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.
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Nov 18, 2015 · With so many loose strands needing to be tied up, this week’s final episode of River really needed to deliver. Luckily, BBC One’s six-part drama gave us a satisfying story and delivered more than a few shocks along the way.
