Becoming Elizabeth

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Season 1
  • Network: Starz
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 12, 2022
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7

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  1. EFRAM
    Jun 26, 2022
    9
    Finally, a gripping, brilliantly written and directed deep dive into one of history's most fascinating people. A seething portrait of the inner workings of the English Court at a pivotal moment in its history. Practically perfect...in every way.

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Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Jack Seale
    Jun 13, 2022
    80
    This take on the Tudors boasts poison of every flavour. Succession has a very promising heir.
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  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Angie Han
    Jun 13, 2022
    80
    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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  3. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Jasper Rees
    Jun 13, 2022
    80
    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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