Reprisal

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 6, 2019
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
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  1. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Dec 3, 2019
    35
    The publicists for Hulu's new revenge drama Reprisal's describe it as "hyper-noir." Actually, it's more an object lesson in how those two terms can't be used together. Film noir is darkly underlit, a creature of the shadows. Its dialogue is cynical but clever. Though its sexuality may be frenzied, it's about seduction, not rape. "Hyper" implies the opposite: Garish. Extreme. Grating. Which is actually a fairly good description of Reprisal. Throw in "charmless" and "crude" and you've pretty much painted the whole picture.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Dec 5, 2019
    30
    Aims at a clever pitch-darkness. It more often lands on a sort of congenital sourness, one that grows choking at the series’s hour-long episode lengths. It’s an unfortunate miss for series star Abigail Spencer, an appealing performer who deserves a showcase that presses her in service of fewer neonoir clichés.

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User Score
6.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 4 out of 15
  1. Glagaire
    Dec 10, 2019
    9
    A little uneven and the pacing drags a little at times but a refreshingly different show with a varied and appealing cast of characters. AA little uneven and the pacing drags a little at times but a refreshingly different show with a varied and appealing cast of characters. A series with a clear and defined sense of its own style and certainly far better than the majority of dialed-in, bland retreads of the same old format that seem to fill the 'airwaves'.… Full Review »
  2. freshtalent
    Dec 8, 2019
    2
    Terrible writing. Very corny direction. Pretty incredible all this money was wasted by creative decisions makers who don’t know what is goodTerrible writing. Very corny direction. Pretty incredible all this money was wasted by creative decisions makers who don’t know what is good or can’t execute, or both.… Full Review »
  3. UncleWillard
    Dec 9, 2019
    6
    If it weren't for Abigail Spencer, I wouldn't have bothered, but I fell hopelessly in love with her in Rectify. She alone makes this watchableIf it weren't for Abigail Spencer, I wouldn't have bothered, but I fell hopelessly in love with her in Rectify. She alone makes this watchable and it plays like an episodic version of Bad Night at the El Royal (which I did not care for). Good show to fill a hole.… Full Review »
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