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| Apple TV+ | Season Premiere Date: April 12, 2024 |
Summary:
In 1776, Benjamin Franklin (Michael Douglas) begins a secret mission to get money and military aid from France in the eight-part series based on Stacy Schiff's book, "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America."
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Apr 10, 2024
Whether singling out characters like the gender-bending Chevalier d’Éon, taking us to the theater, regaling us with armonica and piano recitals, or indulging us in Temple’s first blushes of love (and lust), Franklin takes enough narrative detours to more robustly tell this quintessentially American tale.
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Apr 11, 2024
TV Guide Magazine
Apr 23, 2024
[Michael Douglas is] an inspired choice to portray the legendary Founding father and stateman Benajamin Franklin in a lavish if leisurely eight-hour docudrama. [22 Apr - 12 May 2024, p.5]
The Telegraph
Apr 10, 2024
Douglas combines twinkly-eyed insouciance with gravel-voiced gravitas to prove that Franklin was the real deal. So much so that you want to know rather more about him and rather less about the flotilla of characters that breeze in and out of a story that focuses entirely on Franklin’s eight-year stay in France.
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Apr 12, 2024
Mr. Douglas delivers his dialogue in such a croaking, quavering manner that it seems that what is at work is more a lack of control than a strategy and is, as a result, a distraction. At the same time, distractions may be welcome, given how glacially "Franklin" moves along its less-than-revolutionary path.
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The Daily Beast
Apr 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
Franklin rarely completely succeeds. Adapted for TV by Kirk Ellis and Howard Korder and directed by Tim Van Patten (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos), Franklin pinpoints all sorts of compelling historical details, but struggles to create any sort of narrative flow for what turned out to be an eight-year task for Franklin.
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Air Date: April 12, 2024
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