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Critic Reviews
May 29, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The mystical elements of Lindsay’s book remain, but Mrs. Appleyard’s more detailed biography adds more tangible, flesh-and-blood danger to the mix. ... The question in the series becomes less about how the girls disappeared than why. Whether they’re vaporized by a shift in the magnetic field, transformed into animals, or something more mundane, their vanishing feels deliberate--a way to reject their prescribed futures for a different, freer path.
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May 25, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s a lot, but it’s the right kind of a lot, and like Dormer’s performance, these choices skirt right up to the line of the ridiculous without ever crossing over. Had the writers and directors of this series been better at walking that line, Picnic At Hanging Rock might be more than a decent series with rich production values and a performance that blows the doors down.
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RogerEbert.comMay 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a project that works better at the length of a feature film than a six-hour series. In the mid-section of the season, scenes start to feel overheated, as if the producers are worried that you’re starting to get bored (you probably are). Memorable performances and solid production values just don’t matter if a narrative sags.
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May 25, 2018
Season 1 Review:
To someone raised on music videos and the movies of Baz Luhrmann--another proud product of Australia--this might seem a perfectly reasonable way through the material, even a necessary one. But it still looks like a music video a lot of the time, modern in a way that will seem dated sooner than later. For some of us, sooner will already be now.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 10, 2018
Season 1 Review:
While the secret longings of these missing young women make for a tantalizing puzzle, navigating this tiresome new Rock is no picnic. [14 - 27 May 2018, p.11]
May 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Ms. Christian and Ms. Addison have taken every latent idea, every veiled suggestion, in the material and made it explicit. Every piece of subtext has been dredged up so that it can be turned into banal commentary on the benighted attitudes of the provincial patriarchy toward gender, race, class and sexuality. ... All that’s left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama.
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