Paterno
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 7, 2018
User Score
4.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 10 out of 24

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  1. cmwy10a
    Apr 14, 2018
    0
    Waste of time with no digging into this terrible attempt to be a Paterno bio. Much has been shown to be wrong and evidence of major failures by Pennsylvania gov agency’s failings given almost no coverage. No conclusion leaves viewer hollow.

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#80 Best TV Season of 2018
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#71 Most Shared TV Season of 2018

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Richard Roeper
    Dec 14, 2018
    88
    Unsettling and riveting and scathing.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Apr 9, 2018
    50
    The film is watchable, certainly, but also wayward. Its effects feel scattered, its points lost as the story looks here, looks there; Paterno has many things to show you, but less to say.
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  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Apr 9, 2018
    78
    It’s an engaging (and, perhaps to some defenders of Joe Paterno, it will be an enraging) film that explores character, the politics of college athletics and the value of local journalism in a style that’s more process piece thriller than it is anything like a biopic given how “Paterno” concentrates on a short period in the coach’s life.
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