"If ever there is going to be an award invented for best joint performance, make it this year, for them."
"Squaring off as adversaries", Capaldi and Jumbo are "mesmerising", said Mangan in The Guardian. "If ever there is going to be an award invented for best joint performance, make it this year, for them." The eight-parter leads us to ask "whether we should hold officers of the law, and whether they should hold themselves, to higher standards than the rest of us". This, of course, "resonates amid the onslaught of real-life headlines about police corruption and disregard for (particularly women's) rights and safety".