Decider by Lea Palmieri

The drama has everything to keep viewers invested, turned on, and watching, potentially even in one sitting. It’s a fun, steamy escape and who would dare pass up one of those?

The Guardian by Lucy Mangan

White Lines has been hyped as the hit of the summer, and even though it will not be the summer any of us were expecting I’d be surprised if this lurid, swirling, fantastically confident creation didn’t hit the spot. Its energetic brio and the escapism-cum-nostalgia-trip (via a soundtrack stuffed with the Happy Mondays, the Farm, Radiohead and all points in between), may be even more rapturously received under current conditions than it would otherwise have been.

TV Guide by Tim Surette

White Lines is unabashedly silly, but there's a serious underpinning that gives it some unexpected grounding.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

I can’t say I think White Lines (in English, and Spanish with English subtitles) is “Golden Age of Streaming TV” material. But I can say it kept me around.

RogerEbert.com by Nick Allen

"White Lines" is all aesthetics, with little underneath. It’s a beach-read that you can watch, and yes, even escape to, if a sporadically amusing romp in Ibiza sounds like a strong antidote for this weekend.

The Daily Beast by Nick Schager

Its avalanche of ludicrous double-crosses, carnal entanglements and long-buried revelations is matched by performances that are uniformly overcooked, with no scene left wanting for furious outbursts, longing gazes, intense introspection or flashes of violence. ... There is no subtext, only blunt, simplistic text. ... But it’s rarely boring, which in the end seems to be the only real goal of this tawdry, titillating affair.

The Telegraph by Michael Hogan

The good stuff is stretched far too thinly and The plot loses its way around the midway point. Several twists in the home stretch are highly implausible. The revival of a long-dormant drug-smuggling storyline smacks of desperation. Characters undergo personality transplants or sexuality switches. The sudden introduction of a “fight club” subplot is flat-out laughable.

The Independent by Ed Cumming

The Nineties sections are more interesting, but they come too slowly for us to feel there’s much at stake. White Lines has all the gear, but no idea.