“Kee­ley Hawes’s new thriller bar­rels along like a train on rock­et fuel

This edge-of-your-seat thriller will have you bit­ing your nails

…explo­sive­ly, edge-of-your-seat tense, and plugs direct­ly into every fear you’ve ever har­boured about ter­ror­ist attacks…neatly bring­ing the atten­tion away from ques­tions of geopol­i­tics to the real­ly meaty stuff…Did I men­tion it was tense? God, it’s so tense…trailing the pro­tag­o­nists as they ven­ture down cor­ri­dors and around blind cor­ners with­out any inkling of who might be lurk­ing in wait. Every move these char­ac­ters make could be their last…gripping tele­vi­sion – less shout­ing at the screen, more peer­ing through fingers…It’s a neat way of estab­lish­ing rela­tion­ships and ten­sions with­out sac­ri­fic­ing any momentum…thing bar­rels along like a train on rock­et fuel…be warned: you’ll want to binge it all if only so you can breathe again.”

“Kee­ley Hawes turns gun-tot­ing sav­iour in grip­ping thriller

Who says that action heroes can’t be mid­dle-aged mums?

… grip­ping new three-part dra­ma is full of sim­i­lar med­i­ta­tions on the fragili­ty of life… Cross­fire sud­den­ly switch­es from the pic­ture of tran­quil­i­ty to the height of sheer ter­ror. Be pre­pared: the five min­utes of con­fu­sion that fol­low pro­vide per­haps the most gut-punch­ing, ten­sion-fuelled scene you’re like­ly to see on the Beeb all year…Crossfire is just as compelling…often over­whelm­ing nail-bit­ing ten­sion, view­ers will find the third and final either a much-need­ed breather or anti-cli­mac­tic… Cross­fire isn’t your typ­i­cal ​‘stripped across the week­night’ dra­ma. It can be har­row­ing and heart-wrench­ing and it asks you to con­sid­er all kinds of impos­si­ble ques­tions about instinct, vengeance and self-sac­ri­fice. But its inten­si­ty, anchored by Hawes’ bril­liant­ly resilient per­for­mance, nev­er fails to transfix.”

“This Kee­ley Hawes series will have you on the edge of your seat

Cross­fire is not only nail-bit­ing and tense, it also holds a mir­ror up to our human thought process­es and fight-or-flight mode of sur­vival – that’s what makes it great…the title of ​‘tru­ly unmiss­able’ show this autumn…isn’t your typ­i­cal crime drama…It feels like you’re being pulled along by a heavy freight train; see­ing things unfold in real time while also get­ting a glimpse of the rea­son why…Even in an episode that man­ages to remain fast-paced and high octane, it is made up of painstak­ing­ly long silences. The kind where you’re left hold­ing your own breath or squeez­ing your fists togeth­er in order to remain calm, reflect­ing the ris­ing anx­i­ety and stress of the hol­i­day-goers in the series…”