- Network: HBO , HBO Nordic
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 22, 2021
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings
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Positive: 9 out of 14
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Mixed: 1 out of 14
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Negative: 4 out of 14
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BeartownYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings
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Mar 5, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Mar 23, 2021I liked it, it deals with a strong social issue in a realistic way. I personally think that they could have created a great ending but they did not try hard enough, l still believe the ending is good though.
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Icy and enraged, it’s a sobering portrait of tragedy wrought from not only toxic masculinity, but from the equally noxious—and potentially more deadly—systems that nurture, amplify, and protect it.
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While turning Backman’s complex novel into a series rather than a film was a smart move, Beartown does run into some issues along the way. The rise of Beartown’s hockey team is important for the context of the story, but the series spends too little time showing how their skill improved. The series relies too heavily on surface-level montages to communicate how this dramatic shift actually happened.
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The series' creators stripped "Beartown" of the melodrama that's often inherent to stories centered on teenagers, and of the salaciousness that lesser series lean on when writing about sex crimes. In its place, they revealed a narrative that's chilling in its survey of how we can lose what makes of human in the pursuit of a win.