Gypsy (2017)
Netflix | Release Date: June 29, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJun 30, 2017
Season 1 Review: The first episode of Gypsy is a tough slog, what with a dallying pace and Jean making silly voice-over pronouncements . ... Allow yourself to be taken in by Watts’s wily strategy, and Gypsy may, at its best, be viewed as an interesting character study. Read full review
60
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanJun 29, 2017
Season 1 Review: Watts is excellent as usual, but it’s a lot to ask for 10 episodes. Gypsy might have worked better at six. It feels a bit like therapy, a long slog with a couple of breakthroughs. Read full review
60
ColliderChris CabinJun 27, 2017
Season 1 Review: The increasing lack of control that Jean feels and her impulsive seeking of satisfaction of any kind never comes through in Taylor-Johnson’s compositions or in Rubin’s dialogue. ... That being said, with the exception of the oddly innocuous inaugural episode, Gypsy continuously demands attention in its vision of life as performance. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 30, 2017
Season 1 Review: For anyone engaged in psychotherapy, Gypsy presents a nightmare, but its lazy execution is not worth the time commitment. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJun 28, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s a compelling performance [by Naomi Watts] whose best strength is its bewildering nature. She brings a touch of Hitchcock to the game, even while the show built around her has some shortcomings. ... The ponderous tone does not make the drama any more powerful, alas. Also, some of the secondary characters aren’t developed enough. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GayJun 29, 2017
Season 1 Review: Even actors with the amplitude of Watts and Crudup can’t pull Gypsy out of this induced coma. One reason is a hook--a genuinely interesting one--that refuses to come to life. Read full review
42
Colorado Springs GazetteTerry TerronesJun 29, 2017
Season 1 Review: While Naomi Watts is a fantastic actress and gives a great effort, her character is so unpleasant and performs a series of irrational acts that she’s challenging to watch. Instead of being risqué, without clarity or a proper protagonist Gypsy is a series that just can’t seem to find its voice. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen TraversJun 20, 2017
Season 1 Review: Gypsy isn’t as fun or as deep as one would expect from a project so dependent on its star. Over the last couple decades, Watts has proven she loves a good challenge, and the only challenging aspect of her first TV show is in watching it all the way through. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJun 30, 2017
Season 1 Review: There are some nice performances here--Watts is watchable from moment to moment, whatever she’s being asked to say, and for some viewers 10 episodes worth of the actress will be reason enough to invest the time. ... [But] almost nothing about Gypsy feels authentic. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzJun 29, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s effective intrigue, yes, but a kind quickly deadened by dialogue stupefying in its torpidity--as is the case throughout--and by the flatness of these characters. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyJun 26, 2017
Season 1 Review: Gypsy plods forward, adding one more unprofessional and inappropriate act onto another until you’re pretty sure that at some point, Jean’s Jenga tower of duplicity is going to collapse. The problem is that when it does, you’ll have already gotten too bored to care. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJun 20, 2017
Season 1 Review: A psychological thriller of erotic obsession that doesn't lack for (pop) psychology or (repetitive) obsession, but only becomes erotic in the last few episodes and thrilling in the last 15 minutes of the final episode, Netflix's Gypsy is a reasonable star vehicle for Naomi Watts and little else. Read full review
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