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Positive:
5
Mixed:
14
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Apr 15, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If you’re someone who doesn’t mind substandard dialogue or visual gimmicks — and be warned, most episodes end with cheesy effects that make you think you’ve switched to a disaster flick — and you just want a decent page-turner that you don’t feel compelled to binge in one night, this fits the bill.
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Apr 15, 2022
Season 1 Review:
An old-fashioned courtroom miniseries with a somewhat more modern backdrop of sexual politics, "Anatomy of a Scandal" is a crisply told, nicely binge-able mystery that doesn't overstay its welcome. Adapted from a novel, the material certainly doesn't break any ground but proves watchable enough for its various twists, some admittedly more strained than others.
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Apr 14, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Anatomy of a Scandal” is a considerable upgrade [from "The Undoing"]. Don’t get me wrong, it’s garbage, but it’s high-end garbage and eminently binge-able. ... I would have liked more of an emphasis on how Kate builds her case, but the show isn’t particularly interested in the nuts and bolts of it all. It’s not a courtroom thriller.
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The TelegraphApr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If you were hoping that this six-part thriller, based on Sarah Vaughan’s bestseller, was going to be the sort of handsome, gripping but semi-brainless fluff you could gobble up over a couple of cool spring evenings, then fear not – it very much is. ....There’s plenty to irk you if you came here for serious drama.
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Apr 12, 2022
Season 1 Review:
In its pursuit of big drama located inside an even bigger picture, Anatomy of a Scandal sacrifices intimacy and nuance. Its choices pay off in the sense that the series is never boring — it’s watchable through and through, if partly because it’s short enough that it’s easy to stick around just to see how it ends. But they also stop the series from going anywhere truly thoughtful, let alone daring or provocative.
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Apr 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Dockery and Friend are pros, playing parts well within their respective comfort zones; lesser-known actors like Kudzai Sitima (as Kate’s protégé) and Kathryn Wilder (as Olivia’s confidant) make strong showings in smaller roles. The fault for Anatomy’s broadness—and certainly for the silliest twist this side of Netflix’s even messier marital thriller Behind Her Eyes—lies mostly with writing that tweaks characters to fit the plot, rather than the other way around.
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IndieWireApr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
With all its squabbles, over-the-top drama, and borderline cheesy filmmaking choices, “Anatomy of a Scandal” most resembles a soap opera you’d watch in order to have something on in the background. But the ultra-serious subject matter make it an impossible mindless watch. The final viewing experience is infuriating, frustrating, and ultimately unfulfilling.
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The GuardianApr 15, 2022
RogerEbert.comApr 12, 2022
Season 1 Review:
One of the few above-average elements of the series is Miller’s performance. ... At multiple turns the writing in “Anatomy” introduces the idea of sexual dynamics as complex as the Gordian knot, but instead of addressing them with maturity, empathy, and intelligence, the writers simply slice through the knot, leaving them dangling in the wind. Dockery does her best to elevate the material.
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The PlaylistApr 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The truth is that this one feels phoned in, like a contract that Kelley signed and then never really bothered to put in the work to flesh out these characters beyond the checklist of salacious plot twists from the source material. The true scandal is how lazy it all feels.
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