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Season 1 – Tin Star

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Deep in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, a recently emigrated police sheriff and his family try their best to survive in a charming mountain town rife with crime and corruption. Sheriff Jim Worth struggles with the ghosts of his past as he attends AA meetings, and his wife, Angela, tries to integrate in the town of Little Big Bear. At the same time, a massive oil company, North Stream Oil, opens a refinery just out of town, bringing with it a swath of migrant workers, rising crime levels, and pollution. When a friend of Jim's dies under mysterious circumstances written off as a suicide, he butts heads with representatives of the oil firm when he tries to uncover the truth of the matter.
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Tim Roth's haunting performance is given a combustible foil by Christina Hendricks, but Tin Star has a rusty style of faux-surreality that doesn't elevate its dime a dozen premise.

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Neal Justin Minneapolis Star Tribune 04/09/2019
The cast, which includes Christina Hendricks, is impressive, but it's dwarfed by the majestic scenery and dusty cliches. Go to Full Review Michael Hogan Daily Telegraph (UK) 04/09/2019
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Cinematically shot and twangingly soundtracked, Tin Star was a noirish thriller. Its backwoods setting and eccentric townsfolk would have rung bells for Fargo fans, while Roth was quietly charismatic. The script was gratuitously foul-mouthed, though. Go to Full Review Brad Newsome Sydney Morning Herald 03/28/2018
Roth is great to watch and it's very much his character's show. Go to Full Review Peter Crawley Irish Times 04/09/2019
It is limpid, anticipatory and entirely unfeeling. If all fixed points are negotiable, whether on the clock or the mirror pane, a viewer might take heed and stop following too. Go to Full Review Darragh McManus Irish Independent 04/09/2019
As you'd expert, there's top-notch acting from Roth, Hendricks and O'Reilly among others; the clash-of-cultures elements are funny at times and, as anyone who's lived abroad will appreciate, painfully true at others. Go to Full Review Adam Starkey metro.co.uk 04/09/2019
Tim Roth's grounded performance as a troubled cop... is the strongest pitch here, but it's unfortunately saddled with overblown supporting characters and an intrusive score which feel lifted from an entirely different show. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Alain E @AlainE Aug 31 After 20 minutes of the first episode time to cut my losses. In the first scene a countryside police chief driving on the highway with his whole family in the vehicle almost runs out of gas. The script has the knack of making every interaction sound phony. The same police chief allows his adolescent daughter to drive his patrol car! Then, we are introduced into the bad oil company. Buh bye! See more Mike C @RT52984891 06/20/2023 So the first season was quite well done and the flashback episode to England was particularly a stand out. I have never done this, but unfortunately I think I am going to let the reviews about the second and third seasons influence me and not watch. I hate to do that but it seems that the first season was well done and the rest feel off a cliff. See more upside d @RT55621170 09/29/2022 The main story is good and Tim Roth is great as usual, but the oil company storyline was confused and took away from the rest. See more Tom S @Acewrite13 09/22/2022 How this spawned sequel seasons is anyone's guess. Doesn't seem to have the faintest idea what it's doing, just a mess. See more Sherlock H @RT36172396 08/04/2022 After "Lie to me" and "Rob Roy" I have high hopes for anything with Tim Roth in it, but this was a disappointment. I got tired of people doing the most irrational, pointless things. It is one thing to be a complex individual, another to act senselessly all the time. See more Per S @RT83737705 05/20/2022 Tin Star is starting out well enough in season 1, but gradually becomes a thin star. It's not the actors fault, many of them deliver solid performances, but despite a grand Canadian scenery and an indistict caricatural subdimension the concept fundamentally lacks integrity. It's as if the writers fall into a manic effort trying to make a thriller out of less credible plot details and characters, loading on more and more pretentious twists and turns with retrospectives and side plots, clearly supposed to be entertaining surprises. In stead it just slides progressively into a imprudent and tedious mess. Even Christopher Heyerdahl and his psycho security chief character falls through, obvious by the look in his eyes, saying - I really don't believe in this. I'm at the end of episode 6 wondering whether to finish or not, and there are those warnings about season 2. See more Read all reviews
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Tim Roth

Jim Worth

Genevieve O'Reilly

Angela Worth

Christina Hendricks

Mrs Bradshaw

Christopher Heyerdahl

Gagnon

Lynda Boyd

Randy

Chad Stanley Martin

Derrickhand

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 7, 2017 Fun and (S)laughter An alcoholic small-town police chief whose life is shattered by unspeakable tragedy. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 14, 2017 The Kid Wracked by guilt, Jim attempts to bury his grief by picking the murder case back up, instinctively believing it is connected to his own loss. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 21, 2017 Comfort of Strangers Waking up after a blackout, Jim discovers that Anna has disappeared. Meanwhile, Whitey tidies up a loose end. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 28, 2017 Jack Whitey sets into motion a violent plan to ensnare Jim despite his infatuation for the chief's daughter; Bradshaw faces a moral and professional crisis when faced with the chance to destroy Jim's life. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 5, 2017 Bait With Jim banished from his family home, Angela decides to take her family's security into her own hands; Whitey's uncle attempts to take advantage of the oil boom with a business proposal; Whitey executes a plan designed to lure Worth. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 12, 2017 Cuckoo Knowing Angela and Anna are alone, off-the-rails Whitey seizes an opportunity; Bradshaw starts to dig deeper, uncovering dangerous secrets about her employer. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 19, 2017 Exposure Jack's excessive reaction to Whitey and Anna's connection drives him further away from her; Angela makes a surprising decision; Elizabeth investigates a lead, and what she finds shocks her. Details Episode 8 Aired Oct 26, 2017 This Be The Verse Jack starts to piece things together regarding the perpetrators of the family tragedy; Elizabeth stops at nothing to expose her employer, who is a formidable adversary. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 2, 2017 Fortunate Boy A flashback reveals Jack Devlin under cover and at the peak of his drug addiction, with Angela and Anna living miles away; Jack's operation leads to a traumatizing series of events, with the ramifications following him to Little Big Bear. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 9, 2017 My Love is Vengeance After learning the identity of the killer, Jack abandons any semblance of being the town's symbol of law and order as he and Angela head to the mountains to bring things to a bloody conclusion. Details

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Tin Star — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Gilles Bannier
Executive Producer
Alison Jackson, Cameron Roach, Rowan Joffe, Diederick Santer
Screenwriter
Rowan Joffe
Network
SKY
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Sep 7, 2017