The Reckoning: Best Bits 

To take such a role is a thankless task, but my God Coogan crushed it. He committed fully to it, which could not have been easy, but he has set the bar to a new high. A remarkable performance.

I don’t understand why people have a problem with this - just because Saville pulled the wool over an entire nation doesn’t mean you pretend it didn’t happen .

You’d think Coogan might bring some unintended humour to this role (given his performances in the likes of Alan Partridge, Tropic Thunder, Around the world in 80 days etc.) but no, he’s absolutely stone cold here. Absolutely amazing performance.

Coogan did an amazing job portraying Savile, the only giveaway is that coogan hasn’t got the creepy bog eyes that Savile had

My mum, who was in her 70s, me and my sister saw him once with his entire entourage at a cafe near the river in Otley. Its the first time I`ve ever heard her swear but she said, " Look at him in his stupid shell suit, silly old c**t"

Jesus, just the way he WALKS! And everything else. What a creepy, uncanny, portrayal. I found this almost unwatchable. Coogan is just... well I can't imagine anyone else doing this. Incredible.

Coogan gave one of the most powerful performances in cinema history. I doubt anyone else would have even taken on that role , but he did and it is the most bone chilling performance ever, this is the most horrific horror film ever.

It’s a show about a vile individual. But I still give it to Steve Coogan as an actor.

You know you’re watching a great biopic when you forget that it’s an actor playing a character, and just start accepting the actor as the real person. Uncanny.

My Mum and Nanna met saville in the 90s. He was in the hairdressers getting his hair bleached in Leeds. He saw them pointing through the window at him and immediately jumped out of the chair and went outside, still with his gown on, then kissed both of their hands giving it the ‘ladies, ladies’ spiel. Fortunately my Mum was in her 30s and my Nanna about 60 so they were a bit old for him!

Little fact - Coogan used to do Saville's voice on Spitting Image in the late 80's and early 90's.

Probably Steve Coogans BEST performance yet as an actor, Absolutely nailed this role and deserves awards for this 👌👏👏👏 this subject needs to be spoken about. So that we can stop it from continuing to go on , like it Has.

That Nurse who dismissed Savile raping a patient as "Oh, it's just Jimmy being Jimmy" should have been locked up in cages. Unless she was bribed by Jimmy not to take any action.

Steve Coogan is superb as Savile, he was also brilliant as Tony Wilson in 24 Hour party people, Paul raymond in The Look of Love and Phillip Green in Greed, he is a national treasure

Steve Coogan truly brings this vile human being to life. Amazing performance!

My grandmother died in 1999 at age 93. She absolutely hated jimmy saville. Said he was creepy and”Queer” looking.

Too many flashbacks for my liking. It's now then, now then.

The lady who plays his mother is an excellent actress! To play his mum,with that air of disbeleif,mixed with a mums loyalty,is some task.She does a great job.

This new Alan Partridge is a bit dark

I'm a massive Alan Partridge fan and honestly got annoyed at a few of the fan sites on social media who just can't see Steve as anyone but Alan. He did an incredible job and thoroughly deserves any accolades that come his way. He took such a risk with this but his performance was arguably his best ever

I don’t know how Steve coogan could play such a disgusting creature but I have to say he’s a better actor then I thought he was the performance really creeps me out

Steve coogan is absolutely the best person that I've ever seen impersonating saddle absolutely fantastic

It's amazing watching Coogan act out Saville's steam rollering and lies. He knew exactly how to force someone else in to appearing like the bad guy.

The way he turned during that interview made my blood go cold. I've been thinking of watching this for a while as it's important to remember what a vile, despicable man this piece of dirt was. Steven Coogan seems to have done an incredible job depicting this animal.

I could have done without having the theme tune to Jim’s fix it ear worm the following day after watching this.

Steve Coogan at his masterful best.

Coogan is a great actor, always was.

Steve Coogan did an excellent portrayal of Jimmy Saville. One of the worst things we can do - is hide and not be open regarding these issues. It is a mistake to think that these events can't happen again-, given the opportunity. What is almost worse, is that complaints were made, consistently, and either ignored, dismissed and JS enacted threats. Sexual abuse was an industrial scale. Lessons have to be learnt and enacted.

How anybody can say to Steve coogan why did you take this role is beyond me he’s an actor ,and a dam good one I think he played this role superb .

coogan knocked it out of the park, again.

The best bits were when the BBC humorously tried to cover up their own involvement in Savilles crimes 😆

"The Reckoning" has to wipe the board at the next BAFTA's. not just for Coogan's acting, but also for they way the story was written. the attack scenes was done in a way that reminded me of the old Dracula movies. where you would see the look of evil intent on Dracula/Savile's and then a shot of the fear on the victims face before cutting to the next scene. leaving the viewer in no doubt at what had happened with out seeing the attack.

It's very brave for Steve Coogan to do this roll. One hand it could be career suicide on the other this could show the depths steve is willing to go to portray a monster.

I've always struggled to enjoy most of Coogan's work because he always appears a bit too self-aware in his impressions, he takes his art so seriously. Conversely, that's exactly what this role requires and my hat's off to him for this performance.

I’ve watched tv dramas on the Yorkshire Ripper, Fred and Rose West, Dennis Nilsen, Ian Huntley and Brady and Hindly, but I didn’t remember any of those being controversial… Fred West raped and killed his own daughter, cut her up in the bath with a saw and buried her in bin bags underneath the patio… I don’t remember anyone saying…. Oh, they shouldn’t make that drama….

“Some ciggies, some pop and fun, fun, fun.”

I must admit I was quite amazed at Steve Coogan's performance as Jimmy Savile down to a T in this and I also like his performance as Stan Laurel in 'Stan & Ollie'.

It’s a story that needs to be told. Coogan is fantastic. I’ve always admired him since the day today back in early 90s. But I can’t help thinking the bbc bigwigs not only knew but were probably part of it . There was too many entertainers at it at the time.

What we must realise is that NOT ALL BBC staff/workers/etc are to blame for this situation. But obviously the ones that were involved in the cover-up of this needs to be held accountable for. Also what about other tv channels, don't you think in the past that ITV may have had SOME ( not all) people behaving in the same way and getting away with it? Nobody should get away with this behaviour and we need to let people be aware of things happening, even some of the victims want people to see this, look out for behaviour signs of anyone they've met or will meet and not to be afraid to tell someone about it. Parents need to be aware so they can tell their kids that if they're in a situation with a person they feel uncomfortable with to say something so they can get help and feel safe .

"Fun, fun, fun." What a chilling euphemism . Despite Coogan's brilliant depiction, and it is superb and uncanny (sometimes I had to rewatch the footage to see whether it was recreated or original) , the BBC 4324953 their role in this drama. The institution got off very lightly here.

Steve coogan was very brave to do this role. Amazing performance

What a performance!!!. Frighteningly uncanny!!😮😮😮😮😢😢❤❤

It’s scary how Coogan expresses many Partridge like idiosyncrasies that mirror Saville.

I think the bbc did a decent job. They admitted the cover up, didn’t gloss over it. Coogan was very good indeed.

An amazing portrayal of this creature, by Coogan. He has shown what a fine actor he is.

His performance is spot on but the real clips from the time are almost unwatchable

And to this day his DJ pals at the old radio 1 still say they knew nothing about Saville's acts ..... Oh sure !

I was waiting for him to say to one of the kids “KISS MY FACE”

Obviously this is a tv series not meant for young audiences to watch, the same way you don’t let your toddler see Texas chainsaw massacre. It’s an important true story

I was dissatisfied with them not showing him dressed in his Mums clothes. Clearly had the Eodopus complex

Woah. His voice is spot on.

Apparently he had a strained relationship with his mother, in an interview he was asked if she'd ever told him she loved him and he said no, she never believed in "modern" things like outward shows of affection and that it was a "stupid question" to ask him. It's clear how this emotional abuse would have damaged him as a child, and we don't know what else she may have done, if he was abused by her or anyone else, eventually turning him into what he became. After she died, he stayed with her body lying in its coffin at her flat for five days, later describing it as "the best five days of his life." Given his history of abuse, of children in his power and even of dead bodies at Broadmoor morgue, I wonder if he did anything sexual to her corpse? It's possible, since necrophiliacs often get off on the sense of power they have over someone in the act of violating their corpse, I've heard. But at 0:50, I don't know how accurate that is, did he ever literally say his public persona was "an act" even to her? Also, at 4:54 consider how political correctness is aimed at making people rethink such toxic behaviour, and to prevent it from being normalized or laughed off as just harmless, because Savile and others clearly used "harmless" banter as cover for what is clearly predatory and exploitative behaviour, and the really shocking thing is it was just regarded as"normal" or laddish behaviour of ordinary men. Any time somebody complains about political correctness or feminism trying to make everything serious or spoil harmless fun, consider what some people like him can get away with when harassment and groping is considered normal, and in a climate that allows that idea to develop. Political correctness is essential for making sure things like that don't happen and guys like him can't get away with whatever they want.

The wig looks a little silly. But Coogan nailed the voice and the mannerisms.

Coogan’s impersonation is spot on! Brilliant acting and quite a disturbing role to play with such conviction.

Ironic how the same program that protected Jimmy Savile for many years made a TV documentary about him describing his life and crimes despite doing nothing about it.

Wow.. he even sounds like him

"So I don't spend me hard-earned on hotels" You can take the lad out of Yorkshire, but you can't take the Yorkshire out of the lad.

this is strange because he sounded like saville on spitting image but just sounds like coogan here

Oscar worthy performance

You said man, you sad man, you. Legendary.

A legend that will be remembered till the end times

Back of the net...

i just cant help think its creepier the fact that its on the bbc.....

It seems there is a continuity error during the ice cream scene. Savile produces the photograph for Jaconelli from a brown leather portfolio. The portfolio appears to disappear from the counter and both of Savile's hands are free to carry the ice creams.

The people that covered and lied for him are still out there....hiding in plain site.

No mention of all those that covered this up at the BBC for years. It all came to “light” once Saville was dead, and couldn’t spill the beans on his fellow high profile nonces. That he was a mastermind who had everyone conned insulting

Does anyone know where I can watch this? I'm in Canada unsure if it's available here?

The past is a world we can never experience, and nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.

Very well acted.

Pure genius on Coogan part nailed him top actor 👏

Working title: Now Then, Now Then, 'Ow's About That Then

Coogan was hideously, wickedly, chillingly brilliant in this role

After a few years the Savile scandal stopped feeling like something that actually happened, as far as I was concerned, and instead gained an increasing aura of unreality, rather like an adult fairy tale told to terrify people. I’m afraid The Reckoning reinforced that feel of fantasy for me, as it included details that were admitted fiction, such as Savile dressing as a jester to molest a hospital patient, or his “confession” scene. There was nothing to implicate him in a TOTP dancer’s suicide either, as she’d left a diary in which she claimed to have slept with a different DJ, although the veracity of this diary has been questioned (apparently she’d also claimed to have had sex with Rock Hudson, who was gay!) Whatever the truth of the Savile scandal, this serial wasn’t it.

Coogan needs to be given an Academy Award!!!!

See some partridge coming through in the poses in the pictures and when he is a disc jockey.

Why was it not filmed in Scarborough?

Do not google Jimmy Savile's eyeball rings

What a great actor...

He's got the voice perfect.

This Guy Is an A List Actor.

Steve Coogan is such a good actor. He does a fine job playing Jimmy Savile 💎💎

Ugh. Hearing the voice in the trailers I just heard Coogan but seeing this clip… it’s making my skin crawl

Now then, now then, jingle jangle jewellery jewellery, How's about that then!

Rattle rattle jewley jewellery

But Jimmy looked so normal, he certainly had me fooled

this portrays his mother as always feeling there was something wrong she did not she was his biggest fan

Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

Smell my cheese

Really creepy

What an... interesting... thumbnail lol

Jimmy Saville's sister lived in my mother's street in Wales when my Mam was a kid. My Mam and her friend were sat on the pavement when his limo turned up. Nothing happened but I still find it disturbing this monster was a few yards away in a quiet valleys village.

The Duchess makes a great foil for Savile. The actor playing The Duchess was fab in Bridget Jones Diary series. The moral authority he needed to cater to.

Steve Coogan is criminally underrated. His Tony Wilson in 24 hour party people stole the show as well. Absolutely oozes farts eats sleeps and breathes talent. His Mick Jagger in The Trip was only 30 seconds but will stay with me forever. Unique talent.

Since when has Scarborough had a beach full of pebbles? It has beautiful golden sands, not gravel, like down south.

Excellent from Coogan, showing Savile for the manipulative, cocksure pox he was.

I think he did really well acting as savile I’m glad that these people who have sadly been though this can start to finally heal and began to talk about the situation it’s just a shame that for so long they couldn’t talk about it

Coogan did a good job.

Coogan crushed this role! Well done!

Havent seen it yet as its not available in my country but Coogan looks incredible in this despite the subject matter.

Partridge and Lynn look well different now.