Hemlock Grove

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 19, 2013
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
37

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Melissa Maerz
    Jul 9, 2014
    50
    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.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Alan Jones
    Jul 10, 2014
    38
    The new episodes are mediocre in terms of plot and character development, but they're also consistently paced, and no longer bogged down by exposition.
  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jul 9, 2014
    30
    It is lurid and heated (which "Extant" could use more of) but it’s also just ridiculous and filled with awful dialogue spouted by characters about whom it is impossible to care.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jul 9, 2014
    30
    Mostly, the show exists for its gross-out moments, always a staple of the latenight TV/movies-studios-don’t-screen-for-critics circuit. Still, it’s not like there’s a shortage of places to find either, and the plotting is so haphazard there’s scant incentive to hang around for this season’s 10 hours.

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User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 57
  3. Negative: 8 out of 57
  1. steve9816
    Jul 16, 2014
    3
    After completing Hemlock Grove: Season 2 I must say that I have completely wasted 10 hours of my life and I am embarrassed to admit that IAfter completing Hemlock Grove: Season 2 I must say that I have completely wasted 10 hours of my life and I am embarrassed to admit that I stuck it through all 10 episodes. This stable of episodes seemed rushed through with a trail of undeveloped characters stuck smack in the middle of a mindless plot. Netflix stumbled and fell on their faces with this one.… Full Review »
  2. Pru1221
    Jul 11, 2014
    10
    This is like Anne Rice meets Stephen King . This thriller series is one of the best I have seen in a long time . Sorry True Blood but there isThis is like Anne Rice meets Stephen King . This thriller series is one of the best I have seen in a long time . Sorry True Blood but there is a new show in town . I give the acting and casting a 9 and plot and storyline a 9 and give it a 10 overall for bringing them together . Bill Skarsgård (as Roman Godfrey) and Landon Liboiron ( as Peter Rumancek) have shown there is a future for young Hollywood. The only bad thing I have to say is 10 episodes for season 2 really ? This show leaves you wanting for more and I am already wanting to see season 3 .… Full Review »
  3. harto
    Aug 5, 2014
    2
    *Warning spoilers ahead*

    I really liked the first season and i immediatly watched season two when it was released. Unfortunately the    *Warning spoilers ahead*

    I really liked the first season and i immediatly watched season two when it was released. Unfortunately the second season turned out to be very unlike the first and very poorly directed.

    All the new charecters have very little depth, and often do things that make no sense in order for it to fit into the plot. The character Miranda is a victim of this, she continually changes her mind when it fits the plot. The further you go into the season the more obvious it is that Miranda is not actually meant to be a meaningfull character but just a plot device

    But even overlooking the fact that all the new characters in the show are very poorly written, the show has no consistency and doesnt expand or explain many of the mysterious things going on. Everything appears to happen randomly, in fact so random that the only meaning that can be applied to the events is that it fits the plot, which is still nonexistant.

    The show also does many things that makes it hard to immerse yourself into the universe. For example at one point in the movie the characters need help from an old woman. They need her to help identify someone so they bring her a paper with suspects and numbers below. Instead of merely pointing, or telling them the number she writes it with her own feces on the wall.

    Instances like these ruins the universe and makes it hard to take anything in the series at anything but face value.

    And dont even get me started on the ending....    … Full Review »
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