Night Sky
Prime Video | Release Date: May 20, 2022
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Paste MagazineShane RyanMay 19, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky is one that works. It’s a tribute to the synchronicity between the depth of the unsolved mystery and the similar depth of the two principal actors. Read full review
80
DeciderJoel KellerMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky is a decent series that is nudged into the very good category because of the performances of J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek. Read full review
75
The Detroit NewsTom LongMay 19, 2022
Season 1 Review: The real cement here is two Oscar-winning actors painting a portrait of aging lovers staring down their eventual demise. There is no greater dilemma or darkness. And “Night Sky,” to its credit, knows and shows this. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubLauren ChvalMay 18, 2022
Season 1 Review: The good news: Night Sky is meticulously plotted, with each character and detail woven together intricately. ... It sometimes feels like things are coming together a bit too slowly, and the show probably could have been tightened to six episodes rather than eight. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 18, 2022
Season 1 Review: They could have wrapped this story up in half the time, but we’ll keep coming back as long as Irene and Franklin are involved. Read full review
75
The PlaylistBrian TallericoMay 17, 2022
Season 1 Review: Every time that “Night Sky” threatens to drift off into something disposable, Simmons and Spacek shine, reminding everyone that they’re true stars. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJohn TownsendMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: The beautifully sketched contours of Franklin and Irene’s relationship—their shared sense of history, shaped by an unbearable loss—provides an emotional and dramatic core to the series that more than compensates for the lack of context around the chamber. Read full review
75
ConsequenceAlexis GundersonMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: Effective sci-fi mystery or not, as a sharp-edged family drama, Night Sky is a compelling watch. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergMay 19, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky is a series that feels like it’s treating its first season mostly as prelude, and by the finale it hits the beats most viewers will have grown impatient waiting for. Spacek and Simmons keep those eight hours from being a chore, and there’s potential going forward for something more engrossing. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyKristen BaldwinMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: There is a lifetime of history between Irene and Franklin, and the actors make sure we feel every second of it. Most of the time, though, Night Sky is busy being busy — unspooling new plot lines like so much toilet paper and doubling down on chase-thriller drama. Read full review
65
CNNBrian LowryMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: Thanks to Spacek and Simmons, the show proves initially worthwhile despite being its meandering pace. For now, that tandem makes it worth watching the “Sky.” Continuing to do so, like the show itself, remains an unsolved riddle. Read full review
65
TV GuideKyle FowleMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky still has its moments. Spacek and Simmons are a true highlight, their relationship feeling lived-in and soulful, and the show is working with some interesting thematic elements, but rather than give those elements room to breathe the show offers up a scattered season of sci-fi drama. Read full review
60
The IndependentAmanda WhitingMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky’s top-secret plot often feels like it’s crowding out the show’s real pleasure: Spacek and Simmons giving exquisitely measured performances that capture the patience needed to make a long marriage work. Read full review
60
The GuardianLucy ManganMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: Night Sky, is really three shows in one. ... Spacek and Simmons remain Night Sky’s shining stars. If they could be hived off and the Yorks given their own eight-hour, sci-fi- and conspiracy-free series simply to show us how they navigate the last decade or so of life before it winks out, that would be wonderful. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen TraversMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: Like too many streaming TV shows that come across as stretched-out movies, "Night Sky" trickles out its premise over a full, frustrating season. ... Spacek and Simmons, both Oscar winners, help make even the most dragged out bits watchable. Read full review
40
RogerEbert.comNick AllenMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: Thin writing and slow plotting that's more focused on establishing background than making for a nervous present tense. A story with this many abrupt road trips and secrets shouldn’t feel this dull; instead they make the series into a hollow epic, sometimes filled in with cheesy villains and a couple bursts of action. Read full review
40
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioMay 16, 2022
Season 1 Review: The story they inhabit is both convoluted and simplistic. ... "Night Sky" is built around a decent idea for a 100-minute movie, which it then stretches to eight hours. And failing to find new keys in which Spacek or Simmons can operate, the series tends to lean hard on different iterations of its space-travel device around the world, all without establishing clear or coherent rules for how that device even works. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 20, 2022
Season 1 Review: There’s barely a half-assed effort to “explain” what’s going on, the why and how and to what purpose. Any “tech” digressions are more to tease things out than to drive this towards “answers,” a solution and the ever-elusive conclusion. Read full review
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