Financial Times – Review by Martin Hoyle (November 8, 1985) "Since his partner (pick-up? lover?) is the truculently shambling Ewan Stewart impersonating a sack of potatoes with swinging arms, the note of woodenly aggressive monotony soon forfeits our interest."
The Times – Review by Martin Cropper (November 8, 1985) "A drop-out Civil Servant turned hospital auxiliary (Michael Maloney) and a Glaswegian rent boy manque (Evan Stewart) play verbal badminton with a sample-book of short one-liners ('I'll be off, then—'Have you got my number?'—'Do you want me to stay?' etc) which ultimately become an apparently random collage."
The Sunday Times – () "The point about In the Blue by Peter Gill is not how the relationship between two young men begins and ends but the sense of insecurity and hesitation which shifts to and fro between someone simple, animal but confused (Euan Stewart) and someone inquisitive, hesitant and brooding (Michael Maloney)."