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Rev.

  • TV Series
  • 2010–2014
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
3.1K
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Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman in Rev. (2010)
SitcomComedy

The misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.The misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.The misadventures of an Anglican vicar, his wife, and a small but odd group of parishioners in London.

  • Creators
    • James Wood
    • Tom Hollander
  • Stars
    • Tom Hollander
    • Olivia Colman
    • Steve Evets
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    3.1K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,161
    452
    • Creators
      • James Wood
      • Tom Hollander
    • Stars
      • Tom Hollander
      • Olivia Colman
      • Steve Evets
    • 13User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 BAFTA Award
      • 7 wins & 20 nominations total

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    Tom Hollander
    Tom Hollander
    • Rev. Adam Smallbone
    • 2010–2014
    Olivia Colman
    Olivia Colman
    • Alex Smallbone
    • 2010–2014
    Steve Evets
    Steve Evets
    • Colin Lambert
    • 2010–2014
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    • Nigel McCall
    • 2010–2014
    Simon McBurney
    Simon McBurney
    • Archdeacon Robert
    • 2010–2014
    Ellen Thomas
    Ellen Thomas
    • Adoha Onyeka
    • 2010–2014
    Lucy Liemann
    Lucy Liemann
    • Ellie Pattman
    • 2010–2014
    Jimmy Akingbola
    Jimmy Akingbola
    • Mick
    • 2010–2014
    Katie Males
    Katie Males
    • Lisa
    • 2010–2014
    Quentin Lee
    • Buddhist John
    • 2011
    Ben Willbond
    Ben Willbond
    • Steve Warwick
    • 2010–2011
    Lu Corfield
    Lu Corfield
    • Gemma Harper
    • 2010–2011
    Eliza Newman
    • Chloe
    • 2010–2011
    Severn Brand
    • Courtney
    • 2011
    Hugh Bonneville
    Hugh Bonneville
    • Roland Wise
    • 2010–2014
    Sylvia Syms
    Sylvia Syms
    • Joan
    • 2011
    Joshua Warner-Campbell
    • Ewan
    • 2010
    Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes
    • Bishop of London
    • 2011–2014
    • Creators
      • James Wood
      • Tom Hollander
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    User reviews13

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    10HillstreetBunz

    Almost too truthful to bear

    This meditation on how a a Good man might fare as a Priest in modern inner city London is so real that, as in life, it's often almost impossible to know whether you want to laugh or cry. Often I did both. And at the same time. The story arc leads to flirting with the old postulation on what would we do to Jesus if he walked among us today, but the deeper insight is into what it means for us mere mortals, just to try to be good, even Christian, in this world, surrounded by the selfish and the self involved, the deluded and the indifferent. As writing it isn't being bettered anywhere on TV. As a company, all the players are brilliant, as the protagonist, Tom Hollander stakes a claim of such star quality, warmth and truth, as should make every writer and director beg to have him work with them. Along the way to the denouement, guest stars Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neesons involvement points to the richly deserved recognition that this show has received. The end is almost too much to take...but by a God I'm grateful that it got made.
    10lb-37433

    When my Friends ask about my Favorite TV Series.....I say Rev is #1

    This is a series I had to watch alone. My wife didn't enjoy it, found it to be odd and boring. Maybe it caught me at the right time. I was going through a faith transition, mini crisis, of my own and I was looking for alternatives to how I had been religiously programmed.

    Not that Rev provides answers to existential crisis. But, he shows a religious order that though it is built on money and returns, it is handled by Rev with care and love. There is a tension throughout between the institution of church and the care of the parishioners. I felt Rev's acceptance.

    There is the struggle over the popularity of Orthodoxy (as Rev compares the packed church next door with its harsh rules and dogmatics to his own sparsely attended sacrament administered based on the two great commandments of love).

    The series seemed to climax in season three and it became a little sentimentally dramatic in the end with the comparison of Rev to a Christlike role. But, I still watched with interest through to the final scenes with the Cross.

    It was humorous, ironic, thoughtful and timely for me.

    I couldn't eat cereal while watching, because the crunch in my ears caused me to miss some of the dialogue.

    Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
    8brenstockton

    Sweet and Endearing

    I'm not up on British religion -- I'm not up on any religion once it left behind the teaching of tolerance, peace and love and took up the search for power through politics -- so if I say something offensive to someone who follows the Church of England, just let me say up front that I apologize. That said, I must say I adore this vicar. He's often unsure, terribly vulnerable and flawed, but he means well by his congregation, his friends, his wife. He just has trouble sometimes keeping his human-ness in check. And that is why I loved this show. I also loved the last episode with its poignancy and doubt. The Rev. remained true to his character, as much as he always tried to be what he thought he was supposed to be, he was in the end just a human being.
    9mailtheowens

    Shows life of inner-city London priest.

    "Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for your soul." G.K. Chesterton. This show is good for the soul. Minister's on TV are always portrayed as hell-breathing sledge hammers, naive, bumbling, pleasant wimps or something more sinister. (In Australia no one even bothers to include them as characters as God seems to be an irrelevancy in "the colonies".) But this show is nuanced, perceptive, vaguely shocking and laugh-out-loud funny. I really like the way Adam prays in his head. I pray like that too. It feels a bit like Adrian Plass, affectionately irreverent. Maybe I am being a "Nigel", but if I was a minister, I would very much like to be like this one. An unsentimental show about a peculiarly profound vocation.
    2bashfulbadger

    Why I didn't bother to revise my opinion of Rev.

    I finally gave this show a go, for the last episode in the series, and it's left me completely bewildered as to what all the fuss has been about. I had tried it once previously only to find the credit sequence so annoying that I switched it off.

    But, having read rave reviews in the press (Guardian, Telegraph, Standard), with columnists dubbing it 'brilliant', feting it as a masterpiece and praising the performances, I steeled myself to try again.

    I really wish I hadn't bothered.

    I found Tom Hollander entirely unprepossessing in a vaguely irritating way. His relationship with wife Olivia Colman had no ring of truth – their absurd polite arm's-length behaviour made it seem like they didn't know each other at all but had just been deposited on the same set together that day. She was phonily perky like someone instructed to alter her tone to 'jolly' and 'upbeat' as if talking to a child in need of special encouragement.

    They are supported by a cast of characters who all have faces that you want to slap.

    Is it meant to be a comedy? There was no humour in it, not a single funny line, bar the chap professing himself to be very good at humility.

    I have never had much sympathy for self-indulgent people who lie in bed moping all day after a setback, as the lead did in this episode. After all, he has a wife, child and people who appear to respect him despite the fact that he comes across as a bit dim and self-centred.

    Thank goodness this wasn't some gem that had passed me by but rather a travesty of a comedy/drama/whatever (I couldn't really tell), purporting to be intellectual and appealing for some reason to the moneyed upper-middle classes.

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    • Trivia
      As well as guest starring as celebrity clergyman 'Roland Wise' Hugh Bonneville is also a huge fan of the show
    • Goofs
      Archdeacon Robert is show a few times to be worried about what the Dean has to say, giving the impression that a Dean is above him in the church. The truth is that each Archdeaconry is divided into several Deanery establishments, so the opposite is true.
    • Connections
      Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 24 June 2010 (2010)

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    • Release date
      • June 28, 2010 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Handle with Prayer
    • Production companies
      • Big Talk Productions
      • Ingenious Broadcasting
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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