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Positive:
8
Mixed:
15
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Apr 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
From the get-go, Defending Jacob grabs and holds your attention, hour after hour, as you try to figure out whether the kid did it, and if the parents are going to make it through the trial without imploding. .... It’s the best Apple original series yet, and proof that like fine wine, some stories just need time to age and breathe a little.
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Apr 20, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Defending Jacob” is fairly straightforward. It has a murder. It has a suspect. It has a trial. And then it starts sprinkling in reasonable doubt. If there’s a greater lesson to be learned, we missed it. ... Thanks to a great score and lingering cinematography, “Defending Jacob” is good. It just seems supersized to justify a film star showing up on television.
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Apr 17, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It is thanks to its narrow, altogether gripping—if also frequently suffocating—clinical focus on the inner lives of its subjects that we come to know the Barber family of Massachusetts. ... The portrayal of this devoted couple is far from convincing. It’s a peculiarly weak aspect of this otherwise strong production.
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