The Split Season 1

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Series 1 premiered on BBC One in April 2018, written by Abi Morgan, and earned 74% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 72 Metacritic score. Critics found the show's central conceit - a family of divorce lawyers whose own family is fracturing - dramatically rich if occasionally too neatly assembled. Paste Magazine praised the show when it allowed the Defoe women to 'face real decisions and consequences'. The Independent called the sibling dynamic 'a delight, realistically but warmly observed'. Nicola Walker's Hannah established immediately as a performance of controlled emotional precision, and her chemistry with Stephen Mangan as husband Nathan anchored a marriage the show would spend three series slowly and deliberately dismantling. The Times noted the show was 'often too polished for its own good' while acknowledging its pleasures.

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