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Positive:
10
Mixed:
13
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Critic Reviews
Mar 15, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series illuminates details left out of other standard Civil War stories, and it will have you looking up the real history on Wikipedia. A special emphasis on the Wall Street tycoons who supported the Confederacy (and became rich from the slave trade) illustrates parallels with modern-day politics. Good art tells a story you can't stop thinking about, but great art tells a story that makes you think about real life.
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Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Even though it has some issues, I quickly became obsessed with this limited series’ compelling story. Historical nuggets, powerful performances, and an engrossing investigation that had a lasting impact on American history lead to Manhunt being an addictive true crime thriller.
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Mar 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Long after Stanton’s cat-and-mouse pursuit of John Wilkes Booth (Masters of the Air‘s Anthony Boyle) has concluded, what lingers is the series’ portrait of a nation at a crossroads, and its reflection on the bitter compromises and hard-won triumphs of the era that resonate to this day. To get there, though, Manhunt begins by delivering on the breathless conspiracy thriller it’s packaged as.
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ColliderMar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Manhunt is compelling television by virtue of being both a riveting political thriller and an intimate human drama. Whatever you think you know about the Lincoln assassination already, be prepared to walk away with a reshaped understanding of events — or, at the very least, an appreciation for this new examination of one of the most infamous crimes in history.
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Mar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It's the rare miniseries that feels one episode too short, rather than two episodes too long. Filled with fascinating details that go well beyond high school history books and strong performances from its leads to its bit players, Manhunt is never less than compelling, however.
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Mar 19, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Menzies' energy elevates the material. Stanton, as written, is a typical hero, down to the wife who begs him to abandon this dangerous and all-consuming mission, think of his health and so on. With all that, he still sculpts a performance that is solid granite supporting a crackled shale of a script.
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Mar 14, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The series is well furnished and costumed and moves with pep through its alternating scenes of action and reflection; it is various enough not to get dull. But it’s very much a TV show, with TV beats, made to entertain before it’s made to inform. The problem with any docudrama is that once you know a few things are wrong or fabricated, you begin to question the rest of it.
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Mar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
With the exception of Mr. Menzies and Lili Taylor as Mary Todd Lincoln—their acting being the best arguments for sticking with the show—the actors give broad performances; the racists are vicious cartoons and the ex-slaves are all cherubic. .... And yet, the story—and the bits of factual detail with which is adorned—will likely keep one watching.
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