Sexy Beast: Season 1

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Sexy Beast (UK)

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Paramount+ | Season Premiere Date: January 25, 2024

Summary: Set in 1990s East London, the series prequel to Jonathan Glazer's 2000 film of the same name focuses on the relationships between Gal Dove (James McArdle), Don Logan (Emun Elliott), Teddy Bass (Stephen Moyer) and Deedee (Sarah Greene).

Genre(s): Drama

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The Mercury News Randy Myers

Jan 24, 2024

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

The Daily Beast Fletcher Peters

Jan 23, 2024

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

The Guardian Leila Latif

Jan 25, 2024

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

The Telegraph Michael Hogan

Jan 22, 2024

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

Alison Herman

Jan 25, 2024

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

The Times James Jackson

Sep 11, 2024

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

Joel Keller

Jan 26, 2024

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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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 25, 2024
- No episode information is currently available for this season