- Network: BBC America
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 29, 2014
User Score
Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 5 out of 8
-
Mixed: 0 out of 8
-
Negative: 3 out of 8
Review this tv show
-
A Poet In New YorkYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreMixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings
-
Please sign in or create an account before writing a review.
-
-
Submit
-
Check Spelling
User Reviews
- User score
- By date
- Most helpful
There are no negative user reviews yet.
-
The portrayal of Thomas’ decline is visceral from the first moments to the last, evoking that same second-hand queasiness one experiences watching, say, Leaving Las Vegas, with explicit images of obliterating drunkenness, retching, and emotionless, mechanical sex, as well as the spasmodic gasping for breath coming out of a blackout or descending into an asthma attack. Watching Thomas’ experience is riveting.
-
Everything else about A Poet in New York, which is timed to air alongside the centennial of Thomas’s birth, is small and underwhelming. That sounds like a damning complaint, but the limits of the script, by Andrew Davies, actually benefit Hollander’s performance to some extent.
-
A Poet in New York is constrained in both its ambitions and rewards. That said, viewed strictly in terms of the poetry of the words and power of Hollander’s portraiture, it’s not a bad way to commemorate, as Thomas put it, the dying of the light.