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Positive:
8
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Oct 1, 2025
Season 1 Review:
This is sensorial bombardment, sights and sounds that shouldn’t work together, let alone in a series meant to connect the failures of our past with the nightmare of our present. But through this elaborate mash-up, Wright creates the off-kilter atmosphere necessary to underscore the danger at hand.
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The TelegraphAug 18, 2025
The TimesAug 18, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The astonishing thing about this series is the way it marshals this weird, strange story into coherence, a big brassy spectacle that — in another unsettling incongruity — this hideous conglomeration of puffed-up vanity might himself, in his twisted way, have been strangely pleased with.
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RogerEbert.comSep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
He is the star of a darkly comic opera buffa, and “Son of the Century” presents it like a modern, multimedia Broadway production, which can be exhausting and bloodless but is rarely boring. And Wright and McGarvey’s images — their staging of debates in the vertiginous amphitheater of the Italian parliament, or of a Fascist mob storming into a production of “Madama Butterfly” — can be extraordinary.
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