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Positive:
9
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Oct 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Both of the young actors are remarkable, memorable and carry much of the story. "Let the Right One In" has a uniformly top-notch cast, but the kids happen to be terrific. So is the structure of the series, as laid out by creator/showrunner Andrew Hinderaker ("Penny Dreadful"). It is involving but not overly involved or convoluted in its plotting.
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IndieWireOct 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The set up, while at times too neat, is confident and compelling. (For what it’s worth, I breezed through six episodes.) Showtime’s series isn’t going to convince anyone it’s the best adaptation to date, but there’s enough reason yet again to welcome Ellie into your home.
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Oct 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Some of the choices series creator Andrew Hinderaker makes to expand the story into a TV series land beautifully, particularly the emphasis on Mark's fatherly care for Eleanor and the toll that keeping her safe takes on him. ... It takes a while for the adrenaline to kick into these subplots, and the ordinary familiarity of Naomi's investigation of missing people and unsolved murders around the city adds to the sense of narrative ambling in the slacker portions of these episodes. But the restrained intensity and warmth in Rose's performance bridge well with the rumpled grief Bichir presses into his.
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Oct 7, 2022
Oct 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Let The Right One In is a bit uneven, mainly because some stories are less interesting than others, even if they’ll all get connected somehow by the end of the season. We just want to see how Mark and Ellie manage Ellie’s unusual life, and we want to see more of that as the show goes on.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It's all well done, though lacking the nightmarish eeriness of the earlier treatments. [10 - 23 Oct 2022, p.5]
The Daily BeastOct 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Thanks to a raft of solid performances and some promising possible paths forward, there’s reason to believe that things may yet grow more intense and bizarre. It’s hard to shake the nagging feeling, though, that Hinderaker’s small-screen remake is too defanged for its own good.
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Oct 6, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There’s stuff here that makes one root for “Let the Right One In,” but the show unfortunately does not stand out in a crowded marketplace for vamp dramas. It fails to connect its premise and the emotional work happening to its horror elements; the sweetness of its story and the nightmare of what’s occurring on the margins seem like they’re happening on different shows entirely.
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The PlaylistSep 26, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s dull in ways that the book and films (and probably play) never were. Could it find some life again in the back half of the first season or in future ones? Possibly. The cast is definitely up for the challenge. If only the writers would give them something to sink their teeth into.
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The GuardianOct 7, 2022
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