Overview
- Critics who saw advance episodes this week highlighted Stephen Graham’s chilling turn as jailed killer Jurek Walter and Zazie Beetz’s strong work as FBI agent Saga Bauer.
- The first two episodes will arrive on Apple TV+ on Friday, Oct. 30, with one new episode released each Friday through late December.
- Reviewers broadly praised the series’ atmosphere and lead performances but criticized slow pacing, underwritten supporting characters, and production choices that some said feel over-polished.
- The show relocates Lars Kepler’s Joona Linna stories from Stockholm to a small town in western Pennsylvania and refocuses parts of the novels on the retired detective Jonah Lynn.
- Coverage places Nocturne inside a current wave of slow-burn prestige crime dramas and suggests early critical attention could influence awards-season buzz and viewer appetite for a weekly, long-form mystery.