The Hack

I loved this and the cast is amazing, Tennant leads and is as always as marvellous as he is beautiful.

Lots of actors pop up to tell this important story of injustice I binged the lot in two days it's fast and snappy direction eased the binging on a heavy story Just a shame the wig department was from Temu.

As several reviewers have said, this is a complicated story, made even more complicated by trying to bring the two scandals - phone hacking and Daniel Morgan - together in one series.

More confusingly, the links between the two don't really become apparent until later.

I also found the second episode simply boring and could easily of given up at that point. But I am really glad I didn't, and stayed to the end.

The two stories do link up, and the emotional heft of the whole way Murdoch's businesses behaved really lands - perhaps as a result of getting to know Robert Carlyle's policeman character, and his wife.

This emotional weight appears again later. It is genuinely shocking what they did. And how they largely got away with it.

There are some clever fourth-wall breaking moments - some might say that's overused. But I especially liked the one with Nick Davies and Amelia Hill, where promises are made.

Both Robert Carlyle and David Tennant do stirling work. I hardly heard Tennant's Scots accent and he has nailed many of his character's mannerisms.

Toby Jones is also great fun to watch. And the casting for most of the other characters is great fun.

But at the end of the day, it is such an important story. There were several reveals - I thought I knew what happened but I really didn't. So I learnt something and really enjoyed this fuller telling of the whole story.

Great story, fantastic cast, hard to follow.

This is an intriguing and largely well executed portrayal of one of the greatest scandals to have hit the UK in the last 30 years.

However, as compelling as The Hack is, it trips itself up throughout but running numerous adjacent stories lines that are not carefully woven into one another. It also looks to jump backwards and forwards in time without time stamps leaving the viewer relying on character appearance changes - with moustache vs without moustache - as a form of cue.

Overall it's well done, worth watching, but it isn't binge able and you have to give it the attention it deserves.

This is challenging TV, and makes the viewer work to penetrate the webs, layers, and extent of deceits and conspiracy. By focusing the threads the way it does it reveals an unchecked media organisation's breathtakingly shameless and callous disregard for the public interest, and the contemptible private interest and profit/power rationales that drove them.

Although it can be structurally difficult to appreciate how the jigsaw all relates whilst in motion, I think, the overwhelming legacy of this series will be that it forms a lasting thorn in the side of Murdoch and News Corp. The show reveals a truth they can never escape from and that should always be in consideration when we contemplate their 'output' - even as a new generation take the reins of stewardship.

It occurred to me whilst watching, that perhaps this view is shared by the remarkable cast that showed up to lend their weight to ensuring that this story doesn't go away and get buried by zealous PR but stains forever a publisher who clearly lacks the morality and decency required to be a reliable witness for the events of our times, and is instead a self serving propagandist.

Performance 10/10 Production 10/10 Story-telling 8/10 Significance 10/10 The Guardian 11/10 - this establishment has overtaken the NYT as the International Paper of Record and fearlessness. Subscribe.

The Hack is probably the most important TV show you will watch this year. In my view, it is in the public interest that viewers take the time to fully appreciate its 'timely' message and the history it documents by shining light into dark places..

This is brave and uncompromising television, brilliant.

Outstanding, the style may be out there for sure but I like it. Excellent storytelling of an atrocious scandal. Opens your eyes to how easily we can be led by those in power, and how they get away with it. And you see it again today, hatred is being carefully stoked, and people get pulled along like puppets. Many don't question it - simple lies feel safer than hard truths, and the comfort of belonging to a "tribe" outweighs the discomfort of doubt. And while communities fracture, the real beneficiaries are those funding the hate. They grow richer, seize more power, and tighten their control. We need more Nicks and Alans.