Rain Dogs

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 6, 2023
User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 8 out of 29

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  1. theradfemme
    Mar 16, 2023
    10
    Great show. Hilarious, honest, raw, and authentic. The acting is superb and the writing is just as good. As an American, i enjoy shows about British culture. Let the incels seethe!
  2. UncleWillard
    Mar 9, 2023
    6
    I like it thus far, especially Jack Farthing who's very intriguing as Selby. It took me a while to remember where I'd seen Daisy May Cooper before, and it's Avenue 5 and she's hilarious. I like her here too, and the character has a bit more death.
  3. Paulgemini2
    Mar 9, 2023
    8
    It's always a huge endorsement of a show when the message board incels descend to drive down the user ratings due to "woke content"
  4. Missmay
    Apr 2, 2023
    9
    Only on episode 3 but I am astonished at how much I like this! Compelling, with characters that are compelling even though they aren’t all that likable.
  5. jamalt
    Apr 8, 2023
    7
    I honestly had to google what an "incel" is, but I cannot believe how there will always be at least a few people whinging about a show either being "too woke" for them or some disparaging homophonic, transgender, or to sum it up just a typical douche rant. I only made it through the first episode. It was intense and not easy to watch, but genuine and pretty damn on point. I hope theI honestly had to google what an "incel" is, but I cannot believe how there will always be at least a few people whinging about a show either being "too woke" for them or some disparaging homophonic, transgender, or to sum it up just a typical douche rant. I only made it through the first episode. It was intense and not easy to watch, but genuine and pretty damn on point. I hope the incels out there or non incels work on getting "woke" more. Whatever it takes too not be such a douche I am for.… Expand
  6. bstrdbwn
    Aug 16, 2023
    9
    Sometimes difficult to watch, still very good story of people with toxic relationship, struggling in the modern world. Great.

Awards & Rankings

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#11 Best TV Season of 2023
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#45 Most Discussed TV Season of 2023

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    80
    As brilliant and merciless as Rain Dogs is at skewering poverty voyeurism (“I will not be your liberal victim of the week”), the same point is endlessly replayed until it loses its bite. Still, what a bold, wild-hearted ride, and what a fiercely original performer Cooper is shaping up to be.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Chitra Ramaswamy
    Apr 5, 2023
    80
    Rain Dogs is not really a comedy at all. It’s a bleak and beautiful drama in which the rare laughs are a matter of survival, like holes punched through the dark.
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  3. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Sean O'Grady
    Apr 5, 2023
    100
    Director Richard Layton, writer Cash Carraway, and the rest of the team, deserve great credit and, in time, some awards, for this evocative but bleak sketch of life at the arse-end of Rishi Sunak’s Britain, a country grown too used to the gross indecency of poverty. It’s a fine memento of our troubled times.
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