Duster

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO Max
  • Series Premiere Date: May 15, 2025
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24

Critic Reviews

  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Aramide Tinubu
    May 15, 2025
    60
    What begins as a thrilling journey of an FBI agent determined to make a name for herself becomes an uneven adventure that can’t quite stay the course.
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    May 13, 2025
    60
    It’s undeniably fun for large stretches of its eight-episode first season, and it’s not actually Holloway who ends up stealing the project. Still, it’s also one of those programs that, sorry, spins its wheels more often than it should, and one that seems almost afraid to embrace its darker influences, choosing instead to push its messages of equality instead of embedding them more subtly into the narrative.
  3. Paste Magazine
    Reviewed by: Garrett Martin
    May 13, 2025
    60
    It’s fast, fun, action-packed, and fully sells the intended vibe, with all the warm connotations its 1970s setting promises. If only the rest of the show lived up to those credits.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Roxana Hadadi
    May 15, 2025
    40
    It wants to be more — more mysterious, more complicated, more feminist, more inclusive — and those impulses move Duster further and further away from any lizard-brain entertainment value it may have had. The imbalance of those component parts results in Duster feeling like one long prequel to the story Morgan and Abrams want to eventually tell.