P-Valley

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Season 1
  • Network: Starz
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 12, 2020
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
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  1. DukeCumberjack
    Jul 29, 2020
    6
    Alright so some of the negative reviews are likely the anti-woke crowd doing their usual spamming. The show has a good premise and explores situations not usually depicted on television.

    That said, I got half way through the first episode before turning it off. The acting and writing is clunky and awkward, especially for the dancers/club owner. I didn't get any of the grittiness I    Alright so some of the negative reviews are likely the anti-woke crowd doing their usual spamming. The show has a good premise and explores situations not usually depicted on television.

    That said, I got half way through the first episode before turning it off. The acting and writing is clunky and awkward, especially for the dancers/club owner. I didn't get any of the grittiness I expected from a show about a strip club in Mississippi.

    Maybe it's just pilot growing pains but damn, it was way too obvious the characters were just reciting lines from a script. I need visceral. Cmon man where's the visceral?    … Expand
  2. jooaoviictor
    Sep 23, 2020
    10
    A fun hot sexy dark drama. Consistently smart, both darkly funny and heartfelt with dialogue that has the tough edge, humor, and poetry of Hip Hop. Incredibly hot acrobatic dare-devil pole dancing....makes the movie Hustlers look like ametuer hour.
  3. All_ButTrU4
    Aug 23, 2022
    8
    The show is rich with complicated characters, hilarious at times and dramatically powerful at others, and you can almost taste the chicken wings as the flavorful atmosphere is equal parts gritty and glitter. The Pynk is one club you won't want to leave. Kudos to Katori Hall for her well-researched writing. She knows these people, and she loves them, too.
  4. sybilfilm
    Aug 5, 2020
    10
    Mercedes and Uncle Clifford are two of the very best characters on TV right now. The show is rich with complicated characters, hilarious at times and dramatically powerful at others, and you can almost taste the chicken wings as the flavorful atmosphere is equal parts gritty and glitter. The Pynk is one club you won't want to leave. Kudos to Katori Hall for her well-researched writing.Mercedes and Uncle Clifford are two of the very best characters on TV right now. The show is rich with complicated characters, hilarious at times and dramatically powerful at others, and you can almost taste the chicken wings as the flavorful atmosphere is equal parts gritty and glitter. The Pynk is one club you won't want to leave. Kudos to Katori Hall for her well-researched writing. She knows these people, and she loves them, too.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

15
#15 Best TV Season of 2020

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jul 13, 2020
    90
    In all respects, "P-Valley" sides with these women and those who support them while previewing threats on the horizon. Their view informs the focus in the writing, the directing and the performances, turning every stereotype about these places and these women on its head and presenting them from a view that serves their perspective, for once. And when the story inevitably succumbs to some of its more melodramatic inclinations, no part of its potency declines in the bargain.
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  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Jul 13, 2020
    80
    P-Valley is a series that has a lot to say from a perspective that hasn’t gotten much of a voice on prestige TV to this point. As the ensemble meshes, it’ll be interesting to see how this alternative family operates.
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  3. Collider
    Reviewed by: Kay B
    Jul 13, 2020
    100
    Directed by an all-women team, with a perfectly crafted cast, P-Valley is the unexpected summer show you didn’t know you needed. ... The relentlessness of Hall’s vision shines through, allowing a rare look and perspective into sex work and the working class, devoid of white approval. With every episode unafraid to shatter presumptions, we get an even rarer look at how these types of characters are shot.
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