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Critic Reviews
Jan 21, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Trying to do justice to the stories of abolitionists, freed slaves, Confederate sympathizers, wounded warriors, their harried healers, and history itself is probably a too-tall order for the six episodes PBS envisions as a first season.
The series, though, isn't afraid to be entertaining, and it shouldn't have to be.
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Jan 15, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Its writers aren’t working at the same level [as Downton Abbey] when it comes to turning a phrase or developing a more than one-dimensional character. And the tone, a kind of perky gravity that sits well on the early-20th-century British gentry, is a more awkward fit in a story set in the midst of a war over slavery.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It's stubbornly bland, except in moments of primitive triage so graphic you may beg for mercy. [18-31 Jan 2016, p.15]
Jan 14, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The characters are one-dimensional, so that you essentially know who they are within a minute or less, not least of all the spoiled-belle Confederate volunteer Emma Green (Hannah James), who’s straight outta “Gone With the Wind.” And the story lines about patients are didactic, there simply to provide the writers with EZ-to-read lessons about race, war, and medical progress.
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