The Reckoning
The Reckoning Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 |
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About
"An uncomfortable reckoning with celebrity, denial, and complicity"
This British drama reconstructs the life and crimes of Jimmy Savile, the beloved television personality later exposed as one of the UK's most prolific sexual predators. Steve Coogan plays Savile with unsettling accuracy, often addressing the camera directly to unpack his own manipulation and denial. The tone is grim and deliberately uncomfortable rather than entertaining, structured to interrogate how institutions and the public enabled him for decades. It moves briskly across four episodes, prioritizing survivor testimony and institutional failure over sensationalism, making it a tough but pointed watch rather than a conventional crime drama.
Steve Coogan's unnervingly precise performance as a man hiding in plain sight for decades.
you find dramatizations of real predators' crimes distressing or exploitative regardless of intent.
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| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
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| ▶ | 1 | Episode #1.1 | 8.0 | 339 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Episode #1.2 | 8.0 | 245 | 57 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Episode #1.3 | 7.9 | 215 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Episode #1.4 | 7.9 | 202 | 58 min |