Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 2, 2025
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
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Jan 2, 2025
88
Mostly, though, this is a compelling work, led by Firth’s lionhearted performance.
Jan 3, 2025
80
Lockerbie: A Search For The Truth is carried by Colin Firth, but its concentration on one man’s quest for the truth also keeps the show’s writers and producers from drifting into melodrama around a real-life terrorist act.
Dec 30, 2024
80
The supporting cast (including reliable British faces, like Mark Bonnar, and Iranian actor Ardalan Esmaili, who convincingly inhabits the convicted bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi) orbit this stellar performance. But from the moment Swire realises his daughter has died – a gut punch that many viewers will find hard to watch – to the bitter end of his fight, this is Firth’s show.
Jan 2, 2025
70
There’s some controversy surrounding this show, as there are many people who don’t agree with Jim’s hypothesis about what actually occurred that fateful day, but Lockerbie reads more as a character study about Jim and his perspective than as propaganda trying to get viewers to agree with him — and Firth makes it well worth a watch.
Jan 2, 2025
60
This initial offering is full of good performances and good intentions but remains affectless. An intriguing puzzle only to anyone too young to remember the event – or at least the headlines and the shock of the country – for themselves.
Jan 2, 2025
40
As a domestic drama, it’s one-note — or rather two-note, as Jane alternates between exasperation and support. The series pays no more attention to Swire’s family than he seems to. Firth is onscreen throughout, but because the story is fragmented, jumping ahead for years at a time, he lacks the space to create a full-blown character. (Others fare even less well.)
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Generally Favorable
7.2
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Feb 18, 2025
10
An important series: The truth does need to come out. I visited Lockerbie for 3 weeks just 5 months before the bombing, meeting people in their homes. In addition. the only child of a coworker at the time was one of the Syracuse students killed in the bombing; thus, I have a very personal interest in the subject. The series is well done, unraveling the tiny threads of this tragedy. Please do a similar series on the JFK assassination now that Trump pledges to open the files of this earlier tragedy.
Production Company:
- Carnival Film & Television
- SKY Studios
- Sky
- Universal Content Productions (UCP)
Initial Release Date:Jan 2, 2025
Number of seasons:1 Season
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 4 Nominations
BAFTA Awards, Scotland
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination
