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Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
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Critic Reviews
Jun 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Becoming Elizabeth grants the future monarch some of the agency that she claims to have been denied — and that the inevitability of history too often robs of its most influential figures. In the process, it turns a centuries-old tale into something both timeless and fresh.
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The TelegraphJun 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Becoming Elizabeth takes a while to work up a head of steam. The dialogue contains quite a bit of idiot-board signposting – our daughter Jane, my sister Mary, your brother the King etc. Yet by episode three it has taken on a propulsive intensity, largely thanks to Anya Reiss’s sweaty, seamy, salty script, full of vomit and piss and cruelty.
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Jun 6, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Starz’s latest female-focused costume drama does excel at showing audiences that the formidable Queen Elizabeth was not the only extraordinary woman vying for power. The best part of Becoming Elizabeth might not be what it tells us about the legendary ruler, but how it lets the complex women in her orbit shine.
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Jun 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
On the strength of the four episodes watched for this review, the whole is thinly plotted, slowly paced, lacking a strong center or any sense of humor. As played with spunk and dewy innocence by von Rittberg, the redheaded princess is appealing, but ultimately a blushing cipher.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Becoming Elizabeth is less obsessed with the royal intrigue than with bodice ripping—quite literally at one point—once young Liz’s loins are stirred by the flirtatious attentions of her brother’s rowdy uncle, Thomas Seymour (the charismatic Tom Cullen), who impulsively weds the late king’s lusty and manipulative widow, Catherine Parr (Jessica Raine, chewing the luscious scenery). [13 Jun - 3 Jul 2022, p.5]
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ColliderJun 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The field of stars around Elizabeth far outshines the future queen herself, and as a result, the series is bogged down in its own self-importance, following threads of lord protectors and stepmothers and God knows who else through a confusing maze of castle walls, time passing seemingly at will for characters you can’t bring yourselves to care about.
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