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Positive:
13
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8
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Critic Reviews
The GuardianAug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Instead of feeling overly winking in its reflection of our present political reality, this sharp-edged satire of the world’s OG one-percenters is both an unexpected reimagining of age-old tales (equal parts Succession, The Boys, and Hadestown) and a much-needed reminder that corruption is cyclical—and that hope doesn’t always have to feel so hopeless.
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The Daily BeastAug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
KAOS winks at you while you watch it, introducing things you think you know before snatching the rug out from under your feet, just as its characters are repeatedly shown how knowing your fate doesn’t necessarily show you the future. It’s an addictive type of storytelling, and KAOS is a pomegranate well worth trying.
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iAug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Those looking for more of Covell’s grungy take on teenage angst as so brilliantly illustrated in The End of the F***ing World might be disappointed by the flashier, certainly less subtle Kaos. But that same inherent nihilism eventually shines through, and among the bling and blood, there’s a cunning, political-adjacent denouncement of dictatorial leadership to be found.
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Radio TimesAug 28, 2024
Aug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Zeus is petty and vindictive, which makes him an entertaining character. But it’s the way the eight-episode first season of “Kaos” unspools — introducing a legion of gods and humans — and how they ultimately interconnect that makes the series an addictive, intriguing addition to the Netflix roster.
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Aug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The first three episodes have a lot of toddler energy. As marvelous as the parts are — the bold gender-fluid and colorblind casting, the bravura of Goldblum and McTeer — “Kaos” can be almost overwhelming. However, as the threads begin to tighten and form patterns, and the introduction of new characters decelerates, the show gains traction and tension.
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Aug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While anything this narratively reckless is bound to be uneven—and “Kaos” is—it surrenders many laughs and much provocation as Mr. Covell intermarries the stories of Hera (Janet McTeer), Hades (David Thewlis), Poseidon (Cliff Curtis), Ariadne (Leila Farzad), Orpheus and Eurydice (Killian Scott and Aurora Perrineau), Dionysus (Nabhaan Rizwan) and Prometheus (Stephen Dillane)—who spends much of the time having his liver pecked out by an eagle, while narrating a story of divine egomania, sex, death, romance and underworlds both literal and political.
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Aug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Your mileage may vary depending on how much this sort of drama appeals to you, but while the rethinking of these characters is conceptually interesting, even intriguing, after a time, I did find their internal squabbling, adulterous sexcapades and thoughtless cruelty increasingly tedious. (I do realize that these very elements will constitute a recommendation to some viewers.)
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Aug 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Kaos offers some fun flourishes of originality, drama and intrigue through admirable rewrites of ancient Greek myths and legends. And it’s all buttressed by skilled performances from the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Janet McTeer, and David Thewlis as dysfunctional, immortal rulers feuding over prophecies and power. But it's also a bloated series unable to adequately service its expansive cast of characters.
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The TelegraphAug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The gods are at their most watchable when behaving supernaturally, smiting humanity with locusts and molten ice caps. But whenever they act and sound and joke like us, the great risk – and the thing that just prevents this lively entertainment from clambering to an almighty climax – is bathos.
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The IndependentAug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s no denying that parts of Kaos are compelling – stories don’t endure for millennia if they aren’t, fundamentally, a good old yarn. But the series strains at points under the weight of its arch, high-concept premise. It might not all be Greek to me – but some of it definitely was.
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Aug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
You can still sense what I assume was an enticing outline that displayed Covell’s enthusiasm and made Netflix want to come on board. But you can also sense the places somebody hoped to come back and replace the generic gap-filling with high drama or comedy, and instead just left the filler.
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Aug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series doesn’t have a consistent enough internal logic to succeed as a grown-up fantasy series—at least one plot beat hinges on the fact that these nigh-omnipotent deities communicate by landline telephone—but it’s also not funny or outsized enough to function as a comic farce.
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