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Positive:
3
Mixed:
17
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
ColliderApr 25, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Sure, the pacing is a bit uneven episode to episode and some smaller storylines feel slightly rushed. However, the daring narrative choices and arresting performances led by Caplan make this series a psychological adventure that is more than worthy of your undivided attention.
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May 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Despite the casting — and working from screenwriter James Dearden’s original script to create the expansive world in this adaptation — the first two episodes of “Fatal Attraction” are a drag. ... Yet, as the third episode begins, the series’ pace, tone and direction all meet harmoniously, making for a wildly enjoyable remaining six episodes.
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iMay 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This is a show that acknowledges its source material, right down to the slashed font going into the credits. But it crawls along, and the characters act through the haze of noir-murk that has come to signify big dollar budgets, and instead has viewers wondering whether the cat stepped on the remote.
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IndieWireMay 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Any of “Fatal Attraction’s” attempts to put Alex’s choices into perspective are limp and fleeting, especially compared to the full tapestry of the Gallagher family. That Caplan holds her own without anything comparable is a testament to what she’s able to add that remains unspoken.
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May 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It’s Gabriel Byrne’s “In Therapy” meets “Law and Order: Special Bad-Girlfriends Unit.” On such soap-operatic terms, the series is entertaining. ... Whenever the TV producers throw a bone to the original film script, I found myself begging them to quit. Their contempt for the original material shows in their dull nods to the listless sex scenes and a sad rabbit cameo.
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Apr 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It is competently made and nice to look at, it has a knockoff version of a languorous Southern California vibe, and Caplan and Jackson are both engaging. ... What’s missing is the metabolism, the transgressive energy and — at least in the context of its time — the glossy sexiness that the director Adrian Lyne brought to the film. The thing you wonder as you watch the series isn’t why they made the changes they did, but why they bothered making the show at all.
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May 1, 2023
Season 1 Review:
In a television landscape that’s full to bursting with other prequels, spinoffs, and reboots of famous and familiar properties, you’ve got to give viewers something better than this tepid take that doesn’t seem to understand what made the original film so memorable in the first place.
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Apr 25, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Fatal Attraction was very much a product of its time, so an attempt to cash in on the title – as Paramount+ does with a new version – absolutely needed to reconsider and reimagine the material. Yet the eight-part series awkwardly draped over its bones is a beyond-busy murder mystery, one that – with apologies to one of the film’s signature lines – can easily be ignored.
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RogerEbert.comApr 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This series perpetuates a damaging myth and one that doesn’t need an eight-part, hour-long prestige retelling. No matter how strong the casting, how compelling the plot, and how coveted the original IP, “Fatal Attraction” remains entertaining enough but rotten at its core.
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Apr 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The new ending offers no improvement over Lyne’s ruthlessly efficient original and the bloated journey to get there is rarely more satisfying. Despite several exceptional performances, this Fatal Attraction can’t find the desired middle ground between voyeuristic thrills and psychological nuance.
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Apr 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Despite the fine performances and the first-rate production values, “Fatal Attraction” rides completely off the rails in those final episodes, leaving us with nothing more than the urge to revisit the original to see how it holds up and to completely forget about this misfire.
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Apr 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A disaster. ... The show’s thematic disappointments are exacerbated by structural ones. ... The chemistry between him [Jackson] and Caplan leaves much to be desired. While Huss, Peet, and Jirrels are all reliably solid in supporting roles, a few of the tertiary performances are distractingly bad.
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