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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJun 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Despite not always being a compelling mystery, “Presumed Innocent” makes up for it in spades with a fantastic ensemble and a captivating feud between two egotistical lawyers. This is David E. Kelley working in the register he excels at: a legal thriller with just enough interpersonal relationship drama and a touch of mystery.
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ColliderJun 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent is a masterclass in how to take the source material and honor it while also doing something completely new with a familiar story. Its nuanced approach to justice, lust, power, ethics, and pride makes it one of the standout television shows of the year.
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The Mercury NewsJun 13, 2024
LooperJun 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It just works, even if using such gimmicks as violent dream sequences sometimes feels like pushing the envelope a little too hard. But even that fits within the show's context and slippery texture as it navigates between lies and truths, hatred and love, volatile obsession and tender intimacy.
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Jun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Presumed Innocent” — two episodes are currently available, with new episodes arriving on Wednesdays — remains a solid beach read of a whodunit. Apple TV+, which premiered the series on Wednesday, did not provide critics with the final episode, and I still don’t feel sure of who committed the crime — always a good sign.
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Jun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It loses the thread a little as Peter Sarsgaard tries to top his real-life brother-in-law by playing someone who is somehow even more unlikable. Thankfully, Ruth Negga offsets them both by offering a stabilizing presence to both the central murder mystery and the show itself.
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Jun 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"Presumed Innocent" has a lot going for it, including sensational performances by Peter Sarsgaard, Bill Camp and Gabby Beans. But we've been burned by Mr. Kelley before. .... Ms. Negga is largely wasted, her moody scenes involving a revenge fling with a hunky bartender (Sarunas J. Jackson) ratcheting the considerable tension down; Barbara seems washed out by her husband's behavior. But Mya is refreshingly no-nonsense.
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The TelegraphJun 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Tonally, the thriller from Kelley’s back catalogue that Presumed Innocent has most in common with is The Undoing, in which Hugh Grant, as a top Manhattan doctor married to Nicole Kidman, turns out to have horridly murdered his beautiful girlfriend. The gloss can’t quite conceal the hollows.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
David E. Kelley's indulgent adaptation plods over eight episodes. [24 Jun - 14 Jul 2024]
Jun 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Presumed Innocent is so defined by its climactic twist that Kelley has to find more zigging and zagging to stretch things over eight hours, however briskly directors Anne Sewitsky and Greg Yaitanes move the proceedings along. Certainly the story hasn’t been expanded or enhanced with contemporary resonance.
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The PlaylistJun 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s a version of “Presumed Innocent” that reaches for the humanity of its characters more, but Kelley is so intent on the soap opera courtroom dynamics that he can’t be bothered to do that, at least not at the office. The show handles its characters better outside of the legal arena.
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IndieWireJun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The TV remake of “Presumed Innocent” (officially an update of Scott Turow’s 1987 novel) makes some desperate gambits to fill out its episodes, and the emptiness underneath its dedicated performances proves just as nagging as the monotonous repetition of the same two queries, hour after hour, all the way through the finale (which was not screened for critics).
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Jun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Jake Gyllenhaal dishonors Ford with a perplexingly flat performance as Rusty; Ruth Negga makes the best of the underwritten role of his mysteriously loyal wife, Barbara; and Peter Sarsgaard has fun playing Rusty’s scheming nemesis, Tommy Molto. .... Presumed Innocent stretches a story that worked perfectly as two-hour movie to three times that length, rendering it all but inert.
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The IndependentJun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What's clear is that the streamer was shooting for something like Sky's The Night Of, a brooding 2016 thriller set in the New York justice system. But Presumed Innocent fails to be anything like it – nowhere near as shocking, sexy or satisfying. With this much investment and this much talent, such a misfire feels almost criminal.
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Jun 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
After watching seven of its eight episodes, I didn’t really care. .... While Polhemus doesn’t come into focus as much more than a sex object, the real victims in this “Presumed Innocent” are the performers. .... The revelation of who killed Carolyn Polhemus, if and when it comes, feels as if it will be just a piece of accounting.
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Jun 12, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Gyllenhaal’s talents are not suited to this suite of emotions and behaviors, which read mostly as “angry” and “desperate.” .... The script does nobody here any favors, including Ruth Negga as Rusty’s wife, Bill Camp as his boss and protector, and Peter Sarsgaard as an office rival who is all too eager to nail him. Sarsgaard is usually a terrific actor, but even he can’t make any of this work.
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