Noughts plus Crosses - Season 1
This drama series follows the love story of Crosses, a young member at the black ruling class and Noughts, a young member at the White underclass, who fall in love with one another and struggle against living in such a community fulls of racism and corruption, the thing that challenges their love.
June 23, 1996 in London, England, UK
8 October 1964, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
October 25, 1993 in Grahamstown, South Africa
29 July 1972, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 June 1970, Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, UK
October 6, 1987 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK
22 June 1964, London, England, UK
March 09, 2020
So far, it's sharply adapted and just subtle enough, and the guiltily shocked reaction of Sephy when she accidentally calls someone a "blanker" - the one word guaranteed to get Noughts' hackles up - still resonates.
March 06, 2020
If this is meant to be a parable with the colours reversed, then it is a dishonest one, and a hypocritical one too - running the risk of stirring up the very prejudices it pretends to condemn.
March 13, 2020
As a love story it's not much cop, and the reason I probably won't watch much more: she's boring and earnest, and he is reedy and insipid.
March 09, 2020
With these exceptional elements, Noughts + Crosses feels like a series on the cusp of greatness. But it doesn't quite get there.
March 06, 2020
Noughts + Crosses is made up of powerful moments.
March 09, 2020
True, it's not exactly subtle, but it makes you notice what, generally, you don't notice because you are white -- or at least, because I am white -- and it is extremely powerful.
March 06, 2020
Noughts + Crosses has everything going for it. A great young cast. An exciting plot. A cameo from Stormzy.
March 09, 2020
These Noughts + Crosses characters don't yet have complexity and nuance to match its world-building... Even so, this is vital viewing.
March 06, 2020
Fans who grew up loving Malorie Blackman's books may find such trenchant revisions a surprise - but the drama that has been made from them is properly incendiary.
March 06, 2020
Noughts + Crosses' existence feels apt at a time in which racist discourse is increasingly normalised in the shadow of Trump and Brexit. And is it bad to take pleasure in the hernias it will induce in certain right-wing, BBC-bashing commentators?
March 06, 2020
The premise wasn't subtle, but it still punched you, repeatedly, with darkly familiar phrases and jarring visual shocks.
