From Blogcritics:

• TV Review: Durham County
  “Durham County, a new original series from The Movie Network (eastern Canada) and Movie Central (western Canada), is creepy, eerie, disturbing, dark. And I mean all that as a compliment. There is a definite style and sense of place in Durham County, though it’s not any place I recognize or am eager to visit.”

From Vinay Menon of the Toronto Star:

• Dark Durham mesmerizes
  “In this case, that would be Durham County (TMN, 8:59 tonight), the title and unlikely, east-of-Toronto setting for a new dramatic series that is at once hypnotic and jarring, beautiful and repugnant.”

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Why would the national broadcaster waste its time on an inane contest?
  “Durham County unfolds rapidly and efficiently, but more in the style of sophisticated British thrillers than U.S.-style crime dramas.”

From Alex Strachan of CanWest Media:

• Durham County proves it pays to have pay-TV
  “It’s the first series in ages – perhaps since Ken Finkleman’s At the Hotel – to aim for the kind of literate, high-minded psychological drama that has become the staple of HBO and Showtime, pay-TV channels that aren’t beholden to ratings. It’s no accident Durham County was made for The Movie Network – it’s too grim and unrelenting to appeal to a mass audience.”