|
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
|
Positive:
9
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
|
Critic Reviews
Mar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Between Seyfried’s performance and the bread crumbs we get about Mickey’s past in the first episode, there’s enough to keep us watching Long Bright River. But we can’t shake the feeling that, without Seyfried in the mix, the show would be indistinguishable from other procedurals of its type.
Read full review
Mar 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Long Bright River, whose eight-episode season will stream in full on March 13, is neither a transcendent nor an incompetent example of this type of show. But in its familiarity, it illustrates the limitations of the popular fantasy that one extraordinary woman can right the entrenched wrongs of a broken patriarchal institution.
Read full review
Mar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Long Bright River,” created by Nikki Toscano (“The Offer”) and Liz Moore and based on Moore’s novel, neglects credible crime solving in favor of gothic melodrama that jumps between clichés of family reconciliation and feminist empowerment. The emotional logic changes from scene to scene, while Mickey mostly reads as bottled up, evasive and uninteresting; the one-note character makes minimal use of Seyfried’s abilities. (Pinnock, Harriet Sansom Harris, as Mickey’s landlord, and Perry Mattfeld, as one of the prostitutes, do good work.)
Read full review
Current TV Shows
By MetascoreBy User Score