Ordeal By Innocence
Prime Video | AMAZON | Release Date: April 1, 2018
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Los Angeles TimesLorraine AliAug 10, 2018
Season 1 Review: The three-episode period drama deviates from the book’s narrative yet still manages to weave an equally intriguing whodunit. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzAug 9, 2018
Season 1 Review: Relentlessly dark, occasionally exhausting and altogether gripping adaptation of Christie’s 1958 novel. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertAug 8, 2018
Season 1 Review: It’s a smart, attractive, and well-acted version. Read full review
80
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 7, 2018
Season 1 Review: Every part is well-performed, but the most-acclaimed veterans--Nighy, Goode, Treadaway--do somewhat steal the show. All three are, as they almost always are, reason enough to watch on their own. And you get a crackling mystery too. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushAug 2, 2018
Season 1 Review: A diabolical new ending might make even Christie gasp, yet it fits the crime. [6 - 19 Aug 2018, p.11]
75
The A.V. ClubWilliam HughesAug 10, 2018
Season 1 Review: It’s not subtle--and occasionally outright dumb--but it’s a gorgeous, beautifully acted bit of squalor, nevertheless. Read full review
67
IndieWireSteve GreeneAug 10, 2018
Season 1 Review: The sense of dread and guilt that permeates each interaction, combined with the flashback structure that makes this more ghost story than murder mystery, almost makes each of the Argylls at fault in their own way. Read full review
60
ColliderAllison KeeneAug 8, 2018
Season 1 Review: Occasionally it’s a little too jumpy, but Ordeal by Innocence is saved, again, by gorgeous costuming and set design, with the colors coordinated in ways that make every frame an artistic expression. Read full review
50
The AtlanticSophie GilbertAug 13, 2018
Season 1 Review: It’s lovely but overstylized, amping up the arthouse melodrama to the point where the plot often feels like an afterthought. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Kathryn VanArendonkAug 9, 2018
Season 1 Review: Ordeal by Innocence will fill your whodunit needs. And it’ll be lovely to look at in the process, because it is a gorgeous mini-series. But those lovely surfaces aren’t anchored to a propulsive enough story, so when it tries to polish, complicate, and heighten the usual Christie tropes--the flashbacks, the looping story structure, and the fascination with beautiful images of dripping blood and foreshortened statuary--the whole thing feels overwrought. Read full review
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