Hemlock Grove
Netflix | Release Date: April 19, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 24, 2013
Season 1 Review: Hemlock Grove overall falls well short of anything resembling sustained brilliance. Still, each episode may well push just enough buttons to pull you along to the next one. Read full review
58
NewsdayVerne GayApr 17, 2013
Season 1 Review: A messy newcomer with a "Twilight" saga vibe and "Twin Peaks" DNA. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyMelissa MaerzJul 9, 2014
Season 2 Review: The gore is inventive, but after the billionth bloodbath, there are still as many narrative loose ends as ever. When the story doesn't hold, even the jugular geysers feel boring. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayApr 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: What's a little messy about Hemlock Grove isn't so much the corpses as the oddly paced story and the sometimes eye-rollingly silly dialogue, which occasionally leaves a more than competent cast looking less so. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandApr 17, 2013
Season 1 Review: The writing is ham-fisted and occasionally just howlingly bad, and the performances are OK for the most part, but Famke Janssen is godawful. The weird thing is that Hemlock Grove is almost watchable, at least for the three episodes Netflix sent to critics. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallApr 17, 2013
Season 1 Review: There are just a lot of crazy, crazy ideas hurled out there with no real thought given to pace or tone or how to mesh them all together. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleApr 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: Through the 3 (of 13) episodes provided for review, there’s still a lot more suggestion than information, and plotting that’s probably meant to be cleverly elliptical--important characters who appear out of nowhere, story points that are made clear a few beats too late--is just confusing. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryApr 15, 2013
Season 1 Review: If the underlying formula is as old as “Dark Shadows,” there’s still a need for more narrative momentum than the 13-episode series initially delivers. Read full review
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