A Christmas Carol (2019)

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Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 19, 2019
Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Dec 30, 2019
    100
    [A] rich, clever, funny and courageous adaptation.
  2. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 7, 2020
    80
    utty, muscular, textured and with Guy Pearce (imagine! Dishy Mike from Neighbours a Dickensian miser) delivering an intense, complex performance as Scrooge that was restrained enough never to become caricature, but potent enough to make you believe he was a darkened soul who really did despise humanity.

Awards & Rankings

66
#66 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019

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User Score
5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 9 out of 29
  1. Qishere
    Dec 22, 2019
    0
    Abomination! A so called “remake” of a beloved Dickens’ tale of redemption and love that has been recast as a dark and filthy three odd hoursAbomination! A so called “remake” of a beloved Dickens’ tale of redemption and love that has been recast as a dark and filthy three odd hours of psycho-sexual indulgence with very little entertainment.

    From the first image of a boy urinating on a gravestone to reveal, “Jacob Marley” to the later humiliation of Bob Cratchit’s wife submitting to Scrooge’s quid pro quo offer that she prostitute herself for much needed money for her son’s life and death surgery, this movie is an unfortunate array of artisitic choices that fails with every scene! As is exclaimed so many times in this movie’s dialogue, I can only shout out, “Fu@k”

    Why the BBC and FX allowed their resources to be squandered in this worthless project, I cannot answer, but I can empathize with the humiliation the great cast of actors in this abomination must feel! In the end, by resorting to cheap, lurid and dark tricks of the writer we have been cheated of a glorious Christmas story with an insult to our adoration of Dickens’ theme. It is not Marley who is turning over in his grave, but Charles Dickens!    … Full Review »
  2. Boozehound
    Dec 28, 2019
    0
    Terrible take on a cherished Christmas classic! A perverted assault on my childhood memories of what Christmas is really about!
  3. BigLill64
    Dec 21, 2019
    9
    This was a very dark, yet interesting take on a Christmas Carol. Enjoyed immensely.
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