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.”

From the Movie Network:

Episode 1: What Lies Beneath

Police Detective Mike Sweeney moves his family to Durham County after his partner is murdered. The quiet life he’d envisioned is soon disrupted by the savage murders of two teenage girls and a dark rival from his high school past – his neighbour, Ray Prager.

9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT