P-Valley: Season 1

"P-Valley is a trip, and an experience, and one that feels like nothing else on TV. You may smell the sweat the deeper in you get, but you won't be eager to leave."

"It's some heavy stuff, but the series lands as lightly and purposefully as the actors themselves do after risky pole-dancing routines that will have you fearing for their very necks. Eye-opening telly."

"The plotting is convoluted at times, and the ongoing hints about Autumn’s traumatic past feel unnecessarily vague. But Hall’s characters and the cast — especially Evans and Annan — are vibrant and compelling."

"It’s a confident and lyrical story with an intimate understanding of the sort of characters who are too often used as decoration in the Bada Bings of antihero drama."

"For all the rot coursing through, P-Valley is blisteringly entertaining, its dance sequences regularly outdoing J Lo’s star-cementing turn in Hustlers."

"Helmed by an all-female directing lineup, P-Valley is a compelling character-driven story that shines a spotlight on the beauty and scars of women, Black women, in particular."

"The cast is uniformly excellent but the central trio of Evans, Annan and Johnson especially so, making the most of often luscious dialogue that veers between playfully obscene and heartbreakingly forlorn."

"P-Valley is an unadulterated, unfiltered work that pours light into a specific slice of the Black experience — one that, from the outset, may not seem particularly artful or elegant — and turns it into an achingly beautiful song."