Sexy Beast
Paramount+ | Release Date: January 29, 2024
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersJan 24, 2024
Season 1 Review: Unlike other series, “Sexy Beast” never feels like it’s overstaying its welcome, even at eight episodes, as it feeds in backstory and psychological details that we all but gulp down in voyeuristic fascination. It’s one of the biggest surprises of this new year. Read full review
80
The Daily Beast Fletcher PetersJan 23, 2024
Season 1 Review: The new Sexy Beast isn’t quite as electric as its source material, but to match that film’s vibrancy would be a major feat in itself. Still, it manages to do justice to these three iconic characters as it shows their rises to power. Oh—and, by God, it is sexy as all hell. Read full review
40
The TimesJames JacksonSep 11, 2024
Season 1 Review: Certainly it’s easy enough to click the next episode button. As such, it’s a shame when scenes capitulate to cartoonishly sleazy brutality (the climax to the second episode is particularly off-putting). The bigger problem is the loss of the film’s streak of humour. Read full review
40
iEd PowerJan 25, 2024
Season 1 Review: Sexy Beast the series exorcises his fever-dream flourishes and fills in the blanks with monotonous mobster clichés. It’s entirely lacking in the eerie power of the source material, instead playing out like EastEnders with a bigger budget while lacking any sense of mischief or danger. Read full review
40
VarietyAlison HermanJan 25, 2024
Season 1 Review: Ironically, upping the gore only blunts the increasingly jaded viewer’s response over time. “Sexy Beast” is often so preoccupied with adding emotional and physical stakes that the show distracts from a criminal gang’s simple quest to stick it to the man. Read full review
40
The GuardianLeila LatifJan 25, 2024
Season 1 Review: While the heists, pummelling and kinky threats are not necessarily unenjoyable, the whole series – Deedee and Gal’s love story aside – is pretty one-note, with Gal reduced to “affable blond fella” and the majority of the cast doing a version of panto villain. Read full review
40
The TelegraphMichael HoganJan 22, 2024
Season 1 Review: Lines from the film aren’t so much cleverly referenced as clumsily copied. The end result feels glib and cynical. This is a deeply unsexy beast. Read full review
35
Paste MagazineElijah GonzalezJan 22, 2024
Season 1 Review: The series takes a lean 85-minute film and torturously stretches its plot points to gratuitous extremes, another modern show that comes across more like an awkwardly-extended movie than anything else. Read full review
30
DeciderJoel KellerJan 26, 2024
Season 1 Review: Not only is Sexy Beast a series that feels unnecessary, given its connections to a film that wasn’t a big hit a quarter century ago, but it doesn’t even rise to the level of being a good heist show on its own merits. Read full review
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