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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Neve Dawson

Critics react to series three of Time starring David Tennant

  • Season three of Jimmy McGovern ’s Time, starring David Tennant , has been met with positive reviews from critics after its premiere.
  • While the BBC show has previously followed life in high security men’s and women’s prisons, its third season spotlights a young offender institution, with Tennant playing Bobby Bailey – a guard struggling with his personal life alongside new challenges within the prison.
  • Writing for The Independent, Nick Hilton awarded the series three stars, adding: “At its most angry, Time is scintillating, urgent television, which acts as a desperate coda to Adolescence .”
  • The Guardian gave the show’s latest instalment five stars, with Lucy Mangan writing: “This portrait of masculinity and the misery it brings probably won’t garner the attention and momentum that Jack Thorne’s Adolescence did. But it should. Our boys need it.”
  • Meanwhile, Anita Singh of The Telegraph also awarded the show five stars, saying that Tennant's acting was "Bafta-worthy".

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