Gentleman Jack

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: May 19, 2019
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Chitra Ramaswamy
    Apr 11, 2022
    100
    It is a masterpiece. A gleeful, radical shake-up of period drama that repositions history, sexuality and class with the wink of an eye and poke of a cane.
  2. Collider
    Reviewed by: Carly Lane
    Apr 26, 2022
    91
    The scenes between Gentleman Jack's two leading women are where the show continues to be its most compelling, as well as what gives the season its biggest emotional weight.
  3. Paste Magazine
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Apr 25, 2022
    86
    It’s like we the viewers are Anne Walker to Gentleman Jack’s Anne Lister—it knows we are prone to anxiety and melancholy, and therefore handles us lovingly and carefully, only providing what we can take on. And like Walker, it’s hard—even when faced with faults—not to fall in love.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    May 6, 2022
    80
    The great news is that it remains as compelling as season 1, with Suranne Jones continuing to be a force of nature as Anne Lister in 1830s England.
  6. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Molly Moss
    Apr 6, 2022
    80
    The show has lost none of its brilliance, nor has Wainwright dislodged its heart and soul – she has only added to it. Gentleman Jack remains a bold and transgressive figure not just for a period drama, but mainstream TV in general, and season 2 another emotional ride.