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Positive:
12
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
Sep 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s a riveting and devastating ride, anchored by some of the most mercurial performances you’ll see on TV this year. Tumbling into the Friedkins’ shadowy burrow can be harrowing at times, but it’s a fall worth taking when you have Vince and Jake waiting at the bottom.
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The PlaylistSep 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Not every beat always lands—the middle stretch can circle its ideas a little too insistently—but the overall impact is clear. Between Bateman’s dirtbaggy, persuasive, career-best performance, Law’s weary precision, the suffocating direction, and Bensi and Jurriaans’ unforgettable score, “Black Rabbit” stands as one of Netflix’s most striking originals in recent memory.
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Screen RantSep 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Above all, what Black Rabbit demonstrates more than anything might be one of the rarest qualities in any modern streaming series, especially on Netflix – artistic vision and care. The various minute visual details and narrative subtleties will reward attentive viewers with an array of plants and payoffs.
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Sep 18, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The series is eminently watchable, at times even addictive. This is largely due to the chemistry of Jason Bateman, who channels his smarm into Vince’s consummate dirtbag, and Jude Law, who fills Jake with a puffed-up swagger that can’t keep the hell hounds off his trail.
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The TimesSep 17, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The writing and the pacing of “Black Rabbit” during the appetizer portion of the program are solid enough that one will want to stick around for dessert, though there’s quite a bit of filler, too: A storyline that should become more taut as the Jake-Vince fable unfolds—and secrets are disclosed, and motives are explained—slackens considerably, though likely not enough to turn anyone off. The cast is uniformly convincing.
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Sep 8, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Black Rabbit is worth watching for its stylish direction (Bateman’s fellow Ozark alum Laura Linney helms two episodes), propulsive pace that mitigates some of the narrative wheel-spinning, and most of all Law and Bateman’s brilliantly cast brother act. But technical polish and the faithful execution of genre conventions alone can’t elevate a show beyond competence.
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Sep 18, 2025
What's Alan Watching?Oct 3, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The scripts honestly don’t have a clue who Jake is, and Law’s performance is thoroughly unfocused, if emotionally persuasive at moments. The two actors spend almost eight hours yelling at each other sanctimoniously, which is both a believable interpretation of a sibling relationship and really boring after a while.
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