'Amazing' crime thriller with 100% Rotten Tomatoes now streaming

A five-part British crime noir series is garnering rave reviews and luckily, it's available to stream free of charge on Channel 4.

Limited series Get Millie Black was created for television with a screenplay written by Booker Prize award-winning author Marlon James who penned A Brief History of Seven Killings.

The crime thriller marked Marlon's screenwriting debut and first premiered on HBO in the United States on November 25, 2024. It then had its UK premiere on Channel 4 on March 5, 2025.

Get Millie Black has been helmed by Tanya Hamilton - the show's lead director - while Annetta Laufer has directed two episodes and Jean Luc Herbulot has directed one. The series was penned by writers Theresa Ikoko and Lydia Adetunji.

The show's story follows the incomparable Millie-Jean Black, a Jamaican-born police detective who is forced out of Scotland Yard and her troubled life in London and has to return home to Jamaica, where she joins the Jamaican Police Force.

Once back at home in Kingston, Millie and her partner Curtis begin investigating a missing persons case which crosses paths with another - bringing Scotland Yard detective Luke Holborn to Millie's home.

The show deals with complex themes and explores the painful and troubled legacy of slavery, racism, classism, sexuality, and generational cycles of trauma in the post-colonial Jamaican and British landscape.

Get Millie Black stars the stellar Tamara Lawrance in the lead, joined by Joe Dempsie, Anjli Mohindra, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, Chyna McQueen, Nestor Aaron Absera, and Peter John Thwaites.

The five-part mini series can be streamed free of charge on Channel 4, with each episode roughly clocking in at around the 60-minute mark.

Speaking about Get Millie Black and the inception of Millie's character, Marlon shared: "My mother was one of the first policewomen in Jamaica to make detective. Storytelling has always struck me first and foremost as a mystery to be solved - which I'm sure I got from her. Millie, from the second she appeared in my imagination, was a brilliant, mercurial, hilarious, unpredictable force of nature; someone who was always there, just waiting for her story to be told. I didn't create her, I found her."

With a 100% rating on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, Get Millie Black has been lauded by critics to no end, with one writing: "Get Millie Black lives and breathes. This might be a crime thriller, but it isn't just a crime thriller. In the right hands, a crime thriller can contain multitudes."

While another critic said of the show: "We got more story in the first 300 seconds than some series manage in an hour-long episode."

In another glowing review of the series, a third reviewer remarked: "Crime shows, especially missing girl shows, often feel barren, or at least frozen in their Scandinavian snowscapes. Millie, on the other hand, feels abundant."

And yet another impressed critic said: "Get Millie Black works well as a gory whodunit (with a genuinely unnerving twist at the center). But the outstanding performances and the crimes in this setting make the show unique."

Audience reviews follow in a similar vein, with one viewer writing: "All I'm going to say is wow. Watched all episodes in one sitting. Terrific detective series."

While another audience member commented: "Worth a good watch if you're interested in crime dramas. Especially if you want something original like this one, which takes place in Jamaica. Matter of fact, you don't see many Jamaican movies/tv shows nowadays, and I'm glad that I'd checked it out. Great acting, good writing, and pacing that makes the series sort and simple since this is a limited series."

Get Millie Black is available to stream for free on Channel 4.