Tin Star

It is still off its head, but it seems to have been injected with new energy, spiky northern wit and a lean, lively script. Before I knew it I had watched all six episodes.

Tin Star deserves a wider audience, but there’s no doubting that a short, brutal end feels about right.

While the series is occasionally daft, in a way that jars with its viciousness, Ryan is the real deal, chilling and menacing, a threat that the Worths may not be able to shoot away.

Joffé drops the thread before it gets anywhere, distracted by another shiny object or revenge-thriller reference. Though it has some lofty goals, the shine quickly comes off of Tin Star.

Tin Star's problem at the end of the previous series was that you couldn't care less about the characters and its problem now is exactly the same. It is trying hard for a surreal Twin Peaks/ Fargo vibe and could be quite funny. ... Sometimes less is more. A riot, yes, but I don't have the energy for this.

Tin Star's attempts to out-bloody its predecessors backfire because the brutality is too cartoonish to take seriously. ... The more blood the series sheds, the less weight the violence seems to carry. ... None of the female characters are given much depth in the first five installments. But their struggles are still preferable to the umpteenth iteration of "Blokes Behaving Badly."

With a tin ear for nuance and a heavy hand with characterization and plotting, this contrived and unconvincing crime drama set amid the splendor of Canada's Rockies reminds us how easily show like Fargo or Ozark could go off track if we ever felt a step ahead of the predictable action. [2-15 Oct 2017, p.15]

I live close to the region where this story is based...makes it hard to overlook the fact that small towns like this don’t have a police ****’s RCMP. The whole story-line off-kilter, sure oil brings in money and changes a small town, but this dramatization is way too far off the **** story line could be so much better; sorry! Cant get into the series, only made it about 20-minutes into 1st episode.

Shows some initial promise but then disappoints. Plot is essentially silly and it just ends a few people killing each other. Third season is the worst, absolute tosh.

Absolutely diabolical mishmash of Tarantino-esque pointless gratuitous violence, pseudo-Fargo shenanigans and some sort of bizarre British comedy sketch show... Starts well enough with the beautiful Canadian scenery in full effect... but then the awful Tim Roth slouches in as the unbelievable-in-any-way supposed 'cop'. An alcoholic, socio-psychopath that suffers no ill effects from his condition and manages to get away with breaking the law at any and all times with no repercussions whatsoever... It's not worth going into all the ways this show is effed up, it really isn't. Almost worth seeing a couple of episodes though, as you'll know how it's going to go straight away: Badly, and bound to get worse. The star of the show was the mansion in Season Two, but only because it's in Black Summer S2 as well ;-) Avoid, or suffer. It's up to you...