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Mr Bates vs. The Post Office (TV Miniseries)

Mr Bates vs. The Post Office

2023

James Strong

Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Alex Jennings ...

7.0

81

TV Series. Drama 4 Episodes. Mysterious financial losses lead the Post Office to sack and prosecute village subpostmasters who have no way to prove their innocence.

	Media	Author	Review
		Rebecca Nicholson The Guardian	"A starry cast takes on one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history. They're the ideal way in to skulduggery so terrifying it could be a 'Black Mirror' episode (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Carol Midgley The Times	"Perhaps Hughes's main achievement is in making it so discomfiting to watch. It is still scarcely believable that this happened in modern Britain, that good people actually went to prison for things they hadn't done."
		Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"Above all, 'Mr. Bates vs The Post Office' is an indictment of bureaucratic arrogance and the familiar reluctance of institutions to admit, and when admitted, to rectify, mistakes"
		John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"It is hard to fathom the depths of self-serving deceit at the heart of the series."
		Nick Hilton The Independent	"In its earnest and well-intentioned desire to vindicate the sub-postmasters, 'Mr Bates vs the Post Office' focuses too much on the story and too little on the telling. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Geordie Gray The Australian	"You’ll have steam coming out of your ears by the time you’re finished with Gwyneth Hughes’s dramatisation of the Post Office Horizon scandal."
		Jasper Rees Telegraph	"I’ve rarely felt more manipulated by a drama, and rarely resented it less. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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