Death Comes to Pemberley

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Season 1
  • Network: PBS , BBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 26, 2013
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
66

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
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  1. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    Unfortunately, the mystery isn't very gripping, and there's precious little wit in the proceedings, which come off like a CBS crime procedural dressed in Jane Austen clothing.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jason Clark
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    P.D. James' cheeky mash-up of Pride and Prejudice and Agatha Christie gets a snoozy treatment in this two-night event.
  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    The solution to whodunit ends satisfactorily and in keeping with the book. The leads, though, display little chemistry, and that’s something Jane Austen’s sensibilities would never have allowed.
  5. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    As an inquest and trial looms, threatening ruin to Darcy's good name, our romantic heroes become sleuths in a diverting melodrama that generally lacks the charm of the best of Austen or the intrigue of the best of James.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Lori Rackl
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    The pretty packaging is wrapped around a hollow mystery that’s less whodunit and more who cares?
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Oct 27, 2014
    40
    Death Comes to Pemberley is thoroughly and frustratingly middling.