Harlots

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 29, 2017
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 36
  3. Negative: 12 out of 36
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  1. JennaRye
    May 7, 2017
    10
    AMAZING show...salacious, intriguing, and fun. It's not meant to be a stuffy historical drama and does a damn good job delivering gritty action that keeps you hooked!
  2. JennetP
    Apr 5, 2017
    10
    A ripping good period drama that combines the exuberant depravity of 18th-century pornography (remember MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE?) with a more sober-sided look at the costs of sex-for-hire. Great casting, especially Lesley Manville and Samantha Morton as rival madams, great sets, great costumes, hair, and makeup. I wrote a longer review but lost it when I tried to fix a spellingA ripping good period drama that combines the exuberant depravity of 18th-century pornography (remember MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE?) with a more sober-sided look at the costs of sex-for-hire. Great casting, especially Lesley Manville and Samantha Morton as rival madams, great sets, great costumes, hair, and makeup. I wrote a longer review but lost it when I tried to fix a spelling mistake, so let me summarize by giving it a thumbs-up. Or perhaps a #@#$%-up?… Expand
  3. HonneyNos
    Apr 3, 2017
    1
    Another show about women where they are either screeching or Victims. Or both. Lots of sex, all of it ugly and distasteful. I can hear the critics glowing about it, even though it's just another melodrama. A soap. With nice costumes stuffed with hackneyed stereotypes. Not anything to see. Move along.
  4. subodai
    Sep 4, 2018
    2
    Sub-standard, at times awful show.
    Acting is poor, music is bad, realism is not there and writing and camera is average at best.
    London and its streets are far too clean for the year 1763 but almost every person is trash or "unlearning" to be like trash. It seems that London and its different classes are the same, apart from wearing different clothing. Few people who actually are    Sub-standard, at times awful show.
    Acting is poor, music is bad, realism is not there and writing and camera is average at best.
    London and its streets are far too clean for the year 1763 but almost every person is trash or "unlearning" to be like trash. It seems that London and its different classes are the same, apart from wearing different clothing. Few people who actually are educated or well mannered? That is unfair towards most lower and middle class people and towards some upper class people as well considering years after years of lenghty upbringing at the time. The " harlot" parts are there, even numerous, but also fail in their intended effect: a cheap shot or suggestion every few minutes which does not trigger anything. So, if you expect some easy, straight out of its convenience bag snack TV with costumes on, go watch it. For me, I wish I had stopped after episode 1 but I continued to torture myself for 5 episodes more.
    Comparing a show like this with perhaps Black Sails (which is set about 40 years earlier, not exactly the same period, but fairly close) can hardly be done. Black Sails laughs at Harlots: much better acting, better music, more realistic and superior camera and writing.    … Expand
  5. StanCliffBroad
    Apr 19, 2017
    2
    Dreadful acting, vacuous script, the clothes are just too clean, the whites are white. The characters faces are clean and clear of disease, along with their hands, even the trash in the street is clean. During this time period decades of dirt built up in the streets and the smell was horrendous, all day every day. Pointless faux sex, all over the place and as believable, as the modern dayDreadful acting, vacuous script, the clothes are just too clean, the whites are white. The characters faces are clean and clear of disease, along with their hands, even the trash in the street is clean. During this time period decades of dirt built up in the streets and the smell was horrendous, all day every day. Pointless faux sex, all over the place and as believable, as the modern day music, out of place and just plain bad. A second season? Don;t make me laugh.… Expand
  6. justinhow
    Oct 14, 2018
    9
    Great start to a pretty different period drama about the bawdy side of London in the 18th century. An excellent cast and solid writing along with superb sets ensure a gripping series.
  7. sjdetails
    May 9, 2017
    10
    I'm usually not a fan of period films or shows but Harlots is my absolute favorite addiction on Hulu right now. Each character has had such a captivating storyline so far, and has been brilliantly acted. There is sex, love, romance, mystery, comedy, drama.. everything one could ask for in a good series. Cannot wait for Season 2!

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#74 Best TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Apr 13, 2017
    75
    Harlots, on Hulu, is certainly audacious. And ambitious. But whether it will be able to pull off it’s fine-line feminist balancing act remains to be seen; this show may end up groundbreaking or it may end up a train wreck. In the meantime it’s hard to look away.
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  2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Mar 29, 2017
    75
    Shocking and fascinating, Harlots will keep you watching not for the sex and nudity but for the women trying not to sell their souls along with their bodies.
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  3. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Mar 29, 2017
    70
    In spite of its flaws, Harlots is far more addictive and even thoughtful than I initially gave it credit for. It doesn’t shy away from its characters’ more morally horrifying choices, nor the devastating circumstances that led them there.
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