Enlightened

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 10, 2011
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 114 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 72 out of 114
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 114
  3. Negative: 15 out of 114
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Awards & Rankings

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#35 Best TV Season of 2011
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#24 Most Discussed TV Season of 2011
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#41 Most Shared TV Season of 2011

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Oct 24, 2011
    83
    By this third episode, the tone has become open, generous, and alert to every sort of character.
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  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    Oct 19, 2011
    70
    A black comedy working many shades of gray, Enlightened is about dark mornings of the soul and the fool's-golden glow of the new convert, and it measures the weight of the world with an eccentric scale.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Oct 10, 2011
    80
    The series embraces the absurdities of its subject with enough compassion to avoid outright parody.
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