Criminal review: Netflix’s interrogation drama is both an intriguing and claustrophobic experiment in intensity
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Netflix is keen for us to know that its new crime drama, Criminal, is “ambitious”, but not in an exciting way. “Without being too grand,” Kay said in an interview, “you don’t need any more than three rooms in any kind of drama.” A surprising sentiment from one of the writers of Killing Eve, which flits to a new European city every six seconds. If it was being aired on a less spendthrift channel we might think Criminal’s simplicity was a creative solution to a small budget, but this is Netflix, and as well as being ostentatiously international it has made a statement by casting David Tennant and Hayley Atwell for the three British episodes, along with Youssef Kerkour, who plays a lorry driver accused of abandoning a truck full of refugees.
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Criminal, Netflix review: a brilliantly odd mix of David Tennant, foreign crime drama and Line of Duty's interrogation scenes
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