Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

cozmosmalls This is the first time I have seen anyone brave enough to point the finger at the community. 'Oddballs' are often as much the product of the community as they are self determination. There are always people in small towns who are picked on and abused, stripped of the self confidence to leave the situation, unable to withstand the status quo. That spree killings don't happen more often I find miraculous. Some people have nothing to lose, society has taken it all away. This is an excellent piece of drama, finely acted, brave enough to remove the focus away from the perpetrator for the majority of the 4 episodes. The really SHOULD have seen it coming.

hayley96 There a lot of British crime dramas out there to watch. So something that offers a different hook - a show about the town's people and a journalist returning home - is enticing. On its face that's what Southcliffe offers. Small town life not as kind as it seems, a guy on the fringe, a soldier coming home, a cocky Lothario pub owner - it mixes together nicely. The first two episodes show us the events leading up to the mass shooting from different points of view and a little of the back story of the reporter coming home to cover the shooting.Then the wheels come off. Episodes three and four drag us through the aftermath of the shootings and offer up the possibility that perhaps the shooter is still at large. The reporter - disgraced for a Youtube captured tirade against the town - returns a year later to tie up loose ends. And, NOTHING happens. Long,, painful, extended scenes of survivors demeaning themselves. A sort of dead end on the "he's still alive" theory. Similar to The Leftovers, the overall feeling is "what a waste of time."

cathie454 This is a look into a small community and how they deal with a mass shooting in their town. The reporter who comes to report on the story (from a big news agency) was originally from the small town, and so his ties to it and understanding of it should have added to the story, but it really didn't, since his life was told in as disjointed a way as all the other characters' stories. It was hard to follow the story, as it goes back and forth in time as well as back and forth with various character's stories and their time lines. Also, it was slow, I think because the director was trying to give a picture of each victim's family and situation, as well as the shooter's family and situation; I think if the story had been told differently, it would have been easier to become involved in the story. This would have made more sense if there was a more linear story line. As it is, it's OK, but I wouldn't recommend this, and I wouldn't want to watch it again.

tr91 Southcliffe really did sound promising after all I had read about it. There were quite a few familiar faces, the set looked perfect for the storyline and the plot was good. Stephen Morton as Sean Harris was an extremely dark and mysterious character who eventually goes on a killing spree in Southcliffe, we then see how this affects the lives of others.My main problem with Southcliffe was it was just painfully slow, the killing spree did happen quite quickly but everything else was hard to follow, there was so many different people affected by this and it was hard to keep track of who was who, and it just seemed completely unrealistic. The acting wasn't that great, certainly not powerful enough to make me believe a loved one had just died. I got half way through the 3rd episode and I was getting bored, I just couldn't relate to the characters or feel any emotion because it was so unrealistic and slow paced and I just had to stop watching it. There was just no explanation as to why Stephen Morton had just gone on a killing spree. Overall I was disappointed with the series but I can see why people would enjoy it, it was dark and there was tension. It did have all the makings for a great TV mini-series but maybe it just wasn't for me. I haven't given it a rating because I didn't manage to watch it in full.