| Prime Video | Season Premiere Date: March 11, 2026 |
Summary:
Dr. Kay Scarpetta (Nicole Kidman) returns to Virginia as its chief medical examiner and juggles her complicated relationship with her sister Dorothy (Jamie Lee Curtis) while trying to catch a killer in the series based on Patricia Cornwell's bestselling Kay Scarpetta book series.
Genre(s):
Drama, Suspense
Season 1 Episodes
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Mar 10, 2026
An engrossing depiction of horrific femicide, dysfunctional families and the lies that can change perceptions. Gliding seamlessly between the present and the past, the show follows Dr. Kay Scarpetta (a fantastic Nicole Kidman). .... “Scarpetta” is excellent storytelling. Even as the narrative grows more complicated, the show manages to keep the audience grounded in the crimes and Kay’s methodology.
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The Daily Beast
Mar 10, 2026
Mar 11, 2026
Mar 10, 2026
The show cuts between the two tracks metronomically, giving them roughly equal time, and there is a lot of evidence to keep track of; cellphone checkers may find themselves lost pretty quickly. What you can’t miss, however, is how the contemporary story has been conceived as histrionic soap opera. .... The early timeline, by contrast, is rational and reasonably absorbing, a straightforward (if grisly) procedural mystery that is not insultingly silly by the standards of serial-killer drama.
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The Travers Take
Mar 14, 2026
The Guardian
Mar 10, 2026
Looper
Mar 11, 2026
The direction and cinematography is often eerie and atmospheric, and again, the performances are really good for the most part. The way that the characters speak to each other, though, is so egregiously distracting and genuinely dumb that it makes the entire enterprise just feel absurd.
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Air Date: March 11, 2026
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