SRK's Bard of Blood reviews

News18(4/5) : Bard of Blood – in fact every episode – is espionage in every sense of the term, thrilling and blood curdling.

We have to wait to find about this in the next season, but till then, what will remain with me is the marvellous piece of performance by Hashmi. He never steps beyond subtlety, but manages to keep us glued to his eyeball to eyeball confrontations. Bullets fly and blood is spilled, and we can see the verses of Hamlet and Henry VI playing out through the explosive steps of a teacher who comes out of the cold, guns blazing, to make his way through slimy statecraft. Dasgupta uses Shakespeare's most memorable tragedies most effectively to convey pain, pathos, victory and defeat.A must watch. Bard of Blood starts streaming on September 27.

Rating: 4/5

Indian Express: Nearly every episode ends with a cliffhanger, which is perhaps the oldest trick in the world to keep the audience hooked. But hey, it works here. A couple of revelations, despite being predictable, seem fresh because these are handled well by the captain of the ship, Ribhu Dasgupta.

NDTV(3.5/5):

Bard of Blood may not be consistently pulse-racing fare and parts of it may seem predictable, but with Hashmi, in an admirably restrained way, etching out a believable saviour figure, the series is never less than engaging. From the point that the jigsaw pieces of the plot are clearly laid out in a strikingly uncluttered first episode to the hero's explosive, blood-soaked climactic showdown with a ruthless foe smoked out of a rathole, Bard of Blood keeps us invested in the fate of the key characters. Binge-worthy all the way.