Critics react to This City Is Ours as BBC crime drama returns for second season

• This City Is Ours – the BBC ’s popular gangster drama starring James Nelson-Joyce as Liverpool crime boss Michael Kavanagh – has returned for a second season, and the reviews are in.
• Radio Times awarded the new series four out of five stars, describing it as an “engrossing, stressful and addictive return”.
• The Guardian also gave it four stars, calling it as “lovable as it is bloody”.
• The Times noted that the show — nicknamed “the Scouse Sopranos” — kicked off with a relatively low-key start but quickly evolved into a “twisty white-knuckle ride.”
• All eight episodes of This City Is Ours season two are available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.