From Marise Strauss of Playback:

• Critics cheer Durham debut
  “The buzz about Durham County has been sudden and very positive. “Visually sumptuous and adult,” decreed John Doyle in Friday’s Globe and Mail, throwing in “grim,” “compelling” and “deeply disquieting” for good measure. Its “complex characters are painted in subtle shades of grey,” says Rob Salem at the Toronto Star, and, according to blogger and Blood Ties writer Denis McGrath, it is “maybe the best drama series Canada has ever produced” in English.”

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.”