Pieces of Her

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 4, 2022
User Score
4.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 4 out of 9
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  1. Qhasi
    Mar 16, 2022
    2
    I feel so bad for Toni Colette. This was so disappointing. The whole premise of the show is that her character has this big hidden past. Yet as the eight episodes progress, it becomes quite clear that the secret past is not that big of a deal.

    The final reveal in the end is such a thud. And had the writing been better, it would have had more impact. This series is a non-event with    I feel so bad for Toni Colette. This was so disappointing. The whole premise of the show is that her character has this big hidden past. Yet as the eight episodes progress, it becomes quite clear that the secret past is not that big of a deal.

    The final reveal in the end is such a thud. And had the writing been better, it would have had more impact. This series is a non-event with amazing performances ruined by a nothing script.    … Expand
  2. Warlok9
    Mar 10, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Series starts off with a literal "bang!" but then we are taken on an 8 hour snore fest that could have been much more intense as a two hour film. By the 5th episode I found myself reaching for the remote to fast forward through predictably long and meaningless scenes.
    One of the biggest issues I have with the show is that the opening scene in the first episode where the mother (SPOILER) expertly and ruthlessly cuts the gunman's throat is never fully explained. After it happens the audience is left shocked and wondering about the mother's hidden past that must include her being some type of trained killer or military agent. In fact, we are never given any explanation as to how the mother has these skills or performed such deft skills with a knife. The only reason given is that one time when she was a teenager she saw someone killed in that same way. It's incredibly stupid. The mom is just a tortured person that had a rough life due to her poor choices. The only scene where they show her training is one afternoon, her then boyfriend shows her how to use a gun.
    Sure, the show had some late twists and turns that are unexpected, but by the time they occur you're too bored and disappointed to care.    … Expand
  3. All_ButTrU4
    Apr 23, 2022
    0
    Started off promising enough but it seems it only had the climatic events in mind and not how to build to and from them. A dark and mysterious past is suggested at first to an anti-climatic reveal that doesn't demand the severity the characters live in. It's a confusing frustrating waste of time.
  4. gab211
    Mar 18, 2022
    3
    The plot, or rather the behavior of the characters, is illogical at times and gives the feeling that it is only there to upset the viewer.

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Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Mar 10, 2022
    40
    The time-shifts also dilute whatever suspense there is in Andy's ordeal, which becomes increasingly hard to believe or care about as Pieces of Her lurches to its puzzling anticlimactic finish. [14 - 27 Mar 2022, p.7]
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  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Mar 4, 2022
    42
    In its waning minutes, “Pieces of Her” reveals shards of what could’ve been: how a parent hiding her full identity from their kid can influence distorted identities later on; how honesty, no matter how difficult, can provide as much closure as pain; how suppressing a history of violence isn’t the same as hoping for a present without it. If any of that sounds compelling, seek out Cronenberg’s classic. “Pieces of Her” is too content to coast on, well, pieces.
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  3. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Mar 4, 2022
    42
    verybody apparently abandons their jobs without explanation, little irritants that add up, making for a sloppy and fairly obvious story. What’s odd is that so much talent — the fine young actress Jessica Barden plays an earlier version of Laura — is involved in what is basically this week’s content.
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