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Irma Vep

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Universal acclaim based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Ratings

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Irma Vep

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Irma Vep

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HBO | Release Date: June 6, 2022

Summary: Disillusioned American actress Mira (Alicia Vikander) comes to France to film a remake of the French silent film classic, "Les Vampires." She begins to find it difficult to separate herself from the character she plays in this eight-episode limited series based on 1996 film of the same name from Olivier Assayas.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Recent Episodes

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S1:E8. The Terrible Wedding
Air Date: July 25, 2022
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S1:E7. The Spectre
Air Date: July 18, 2022
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S1:E6. The Thunder Master
Air Date: July 11, 2022

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Metascore

84

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21

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Critic Reviews

100

Consequence

Clint Worthington

Jun 6, 2022

Season 1 Review: Irma Vep is a quirky showbiz dramedy with some of the most deceptively smart writing on television, and that’s worth tuning in for. Read full review

100

The A.V. Club

David Cote

Jun 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: Stuffed with colorful characters speaking wistful but believable dialogue, attractive locations, and graceful camerawork, Irma Vep floats along on the lightest of breezes, a behind-the-scenes comedy with enough heartbreak and humor to keep it grounded. ... The series is also ridiculously bingeable and addictive. After four episodes, we wanted more. Read full review

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IndieWire Steve Greene

Jun 6, 2022

Season 1 Review: If “Irma Vep” ’96 is a quintessential Ship of Theseus, swapping and refitting planks until it’s impossible to say where performer ends and performance begins, Vikander, through Mira, is an actress who can conjure a sea-ready vessel at will for whatever each new situation demands. She’s also a main vector for this “Irma Vep” and its more mischievous side. Read full review

83

Entertainment Weekly

Darren Franich

Jun 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: I don't think the director nails the social-media age the way '90s-Irma fully witnessed its own pop-culture landscape. But after the first three episodes, I've fallen for this French froth. Read full review

80

i Rachael Sigee

Aug 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: It ought to be too clever for its own good but, somehow, Assayas pulls it off. Read full review

80

Rolling Stone

David Fear

Jun 21, 2022

Season 1 Review: What this sometimes playful, sometimes moody Irma Vep gives us is less a tabloid fan-fic guessing game, however, than its creator’s own neurosis and fears about where he’s been, where the art form he’s obsessed over is going and what happens to cinephiles if cinema reaches its last-gasp phase. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Daniel Fienberg

May 23, 2022

Season 1 Review: This Irma Vep is loose and intellectually loopy, broad and jokey one moment and wallowing in sad self-absorption the next. One might compare it to the current season of HBO’s Barry, only with more pretensions, which definitely isn’t a bad thing — though I’m not sure after the three episodes (out of eight total) premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival if Assayas has a conclusive point he wants to make, or if he’s just noodling again on an art form in perpetual transition. Read full review

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User Reviews

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Paper_Kay

Jul 10, 2022

Love this director, love this show, I just hate how nothing anyone ever does is ever good enough. Every time the 'director' is in the scene, I just know it's going to be a whiny criticism and an endless complaints-fest no matter how good the actors or script or set... He just alwaysLove this director, love this show, I just hate how nothing anyone ever does is ever good enough. Every time the 'director' is in the scene, I just know it's going to be a whiny criticism and an endless complaints-fest no matter how good the actors or script or set... He just always endlessly complains.… Expand

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bertobellamy

Jun 29, 2022

The 'Irma Vep' series adaptation is funny and enjoyable. There's nothing here you haven't seen before, but the behind-the-scenes look at the production of an avant-grade series offers some hilarious and entertaining moments. Also, the blending of the original series with the recreated scenesThe 'Irma Vep' series adaptation is funny and enjoyable. There's nothing here you haven't seen before, but the behind-the-scenes look at the production of an avant-grade series offers some hilarious and entertaining moments. Also, the blending of the original series with the recreated scenes is very well done. Looking forward to seeing what happens!… Expand

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TVJerry

Jun 12, 2022

This series is based on the 1996 film by Olivier Assayas, about a star and the movie she's remaking (the French silent classic, Les Vampires). Alicia Vikander takes on the lead as the American star who's not happy about her career in blockbusters or her recently-ended relationship. WhileThis series is based on the 1996 film by Olivier Assayas, about a star and the movie she's remaking (the French silent classic, Les Vampires). Alicia Vikander takes on the lead as the American star who's not happy about her career in blockbusters or her recently-ended relationship. While there are some cool looks at the glamour of a star's life and the making of a film, the self-important dialogue drags it down. This look at art vs. commerce isn't interesting.… Expand

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OlivierPiel

Jun 8, 2022

Cue: Character pulls a Gilles Deleuze book on cinema. Cue: Name dropping of "avant-guerre"European cinema. Cue: American actresses smoking and talking endlessly about their sex lives. Cue: Name dropping mother **** Leonard Cohen like any left-bank left-wing Parisian adolescent has done sinceCue: Character pulls a Gilles Deleuze book on cinema. Cue: Name dropping of "avant-guerre"European cinema. Cue: American actresses smoking and talking endlessly about their sex lives. Cue: Name dropping mother **** Leonard Cohen like any left-bank left-wing Parisian adolescent has done since 1968.
Navel-gazing, presumptuous, verbose as in non-stop talking,...as couldn't be any more cliché -and seemingly unaware of it-, about Parisians! This is another excruciating boring turd from an overrated French director. This time, it's Assayas. It would be laughable if it weren't symptomatic of a degenerate culture stuck in a Nietzschean "eternal return". See, anybody can do some **** name-dropping too!

This is the opposite of cinema. This is pseudo-Godard without the balls of going off the tangent and his knack for experimentation. It pretends to be edgy and artistic but awes second-rate American film critics, that don't have the culture to be literary or art critics....while inflicting acoustic torture on any person who has ever seen a Tarkovsky or Bresson film (this name dropping is OP as my nephew says)… Expand

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 6, 2022
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  S1:E8. The Terrible Wedding
  Air Date: July 25, 2022
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  S1:E7. The Spectre
  Air Date: July 18, 2022
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  S1:E6. The Thunder Master
  Air Date: July 11, 2022
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  S1:E5. Hypnotic Eyes
  Air Date: July 4, 2022
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  S1:E4. The Poisoner
  Air Date: June 27, 2022
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  S1:E3. Dead Man's Escape
  Air Date: June 20, 2022
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  S1:E2. The Ring That Kills
  Air Date: June 13, 2022
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  S1:E1. The Severed Head
  Air Date: June 6, 2022