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A Thousand Blows
2025–2026
· TV Show
· 60 min episodes
· 2 seasons
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Every rating
60–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic users on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 90. Critics average 84, everyone else 71.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.
Details
- Created by
- Steven Knight
- Studio
- The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions, Water & Power Productions, The Walt Disney Company EMEA
- Released
- 21 February 2025
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Episodes
- 12 across 2 seasons
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Cast
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Awards
1 win & 1 nomination total
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