Red Riding, the British crime drama starring David Morrissey and Daniel Mays, is now available on Netflix.
The limited series, based on David Peace's collection of novels, consists of three feature-length episodes - set in 1974, 1980 and 1983 respectively - which examine police corruption against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders.
Originally airing on Channel 4 in 2009, the period crime drama has found a new streaming home in the UK, with all three instalments now available to stream on Netflix after being added to the streamer earlier this week.
The series boasts a stacked cast, with Morrissey appearing as Maurice Jobson in all three parts. Mays features in 1974 and 1983, with other famous faces including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Eddie Marsan and Michelle Dockery.
All three parts received critical acclaim, with Rotten Tomatoes currently reporting approval ratings of 100%, 93% and 92% for 1974, 1980 and 1983 respectively from a combined 41 reviews.
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"This is a noir, the kind where the good-for-nothing gumshoe (here, an investigative reporter) has a habit of getting his face bashed in," wrote the Austin Chronicle of 1974, adding that the "efficiently plotted" series contained "breath-catching imagery".
The publication lauded its follow-up 1980, writing: "[It's] not particularly interested in the participatory thrills of crime procedurals. The audience can try sleuthing it out all it wants; the clues are there, but it takes absorbing the trilogy as a piece to make sense of them."
The concluding chapter, 1983, also received praise, with the outlet writing: "There's still a great deal of satisfaction to be had in both the resolution of the plot's many mysteries and the thematic throughlines of the three films."
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Likewise, general audiences enjoyed the limited series, with the three instalments receiving respective user ratings of 6.9, 7.1 and 7.1 out of 10 on IMDb from over 33,000 reviews across the trilogy.
"The exploration of police corruption and the struggle for both revenge and justice resonate well beyond the ending of the film," said one viewer of 1974, while another called 1983 "brutal" and "disturbing".
Red Riding is streaming now on Netflix.
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