Angelyne

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Season 1
  • Network: Peacock
  • Series Premiere Date: May 19, 2022
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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Critic Reviews

  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    May 19, 2022
    60
    The storytelling of Angelyne leaves a lot to be desired, but Rossum’s performance cuts through the script gymnastics, making us curious about what parts of Angelyne’s life the series will explore.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    May 19, 2022
    50
    While it is on balance a celebration (otherwise, what would be the point?), there is a respectable attempt to express the essential, if not always the actual, truth of the matter. The effect is a little schizoid, however, and it’s hard to know how to take the series at first, what’s meant to be funny ha-ha and what’s meant to be funny strange.
  3. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    May 19, 2022
    50
    "Angelyne" approximates its subject in the wrong ways: It's big, attention-getting and has all the depth of a billboard. Emmy Rossum stars and produced this limited series, which doesn't profess to be truth but rather a facsimile of it. In a year that's already given the world the superior "Pam & Tommy," consider this evidence that impressive makeup alone isn't enough.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    May 18, 2022
    50
    The cleverness of Angelyne comes and goes and its intellectual points range from perceptive to half-baked in what ultimately feels like a Charlie Kaufman-lite feature film stretched — thankfully only to five hours — by the demands of streaming television.