Low Winter Sun is an American crime drama television series that aired on AMC from August 11 to October 6, 2013, for one season consisting of ten episodes.

The website's critical consensus is, "Mark Strong makes for a compelling lead, but Low Winter Sun is too serious for its own good, sagging under the weight of its bleak, brooding tone.

"[22] In her review for Slate, Willa Paskin found the series derivative of shows such as The Wire, which had a similar setting and tone, and was part of a broader "copycat phase" in American television drama.

She defined the issue as, "The easiest way to tell the difference between the good and the bad doppelgangers is to apply a modified-for-TV Turing test: Do the characters on screen resemble actual human beings?

[24] In a 2024 retrospective, Joe Reid of Primetimer was critical of the series and argued it marked a shift in then-trends in prestige television, for grim subject matter and morally grey protagonists, when it ended up underperforming.