[3][4] In a segment on Channel 4 News on 22 August 2014, Moore's scripts were described as "his mix of the mysterious and banal which unfolds in his beloved hometown where the working men’s club plays host to a bleak and graphic journey through purgatory.

"[6] Writing in The Guardian Ben Child described the films, "Defiantly avante garde, this louche and oddly sinister vignette suggests that Moore, as a film-maker, is determinedly disinterested in regurgitating his own comic-book back catalogue: we're definitely not in Smallville any more.

[8] Anton Bitel of Little White Lies wrote "this Midlands memento mori remains a genuine curiosity, matching a strong sense of place to a mood all its own – and all its clownishness is a mere masquerade for something far more grave (or should that be the other way around?)."

[13][14][15][16][17] Show Pieces was screened at Graphic Festival at Sydney Opera House and The Barbican, London in 2016 to mark the release of the digital home video.

[18] In 2014 Lex released a box set including a DVD of all films, a separate book of storyboard illustrations by Kristian Hammerstad and the original screenplay and a CD of the soundtrack.