Soulmates

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Season 1
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 5, 2020
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Paste Magazine
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Oct 5, 2020
    91
    The strength of the cast and the engaging storytelling help mitigate the fact that we spend very little time with these people. Any one of these stories could sustain an entire series, and in some ways the show might have been better for it. But thanks to great performances (from a largely British cast playing Americans) including Sarah Snook, Kingsley Ben-Adir, David Costabile, Sonya Cassidy, Charlie Heaton, Malin Akerman, Bill Skarsgård, and Betsy Brandt, it’s easy to become immediately invested in each new story—though leaving them behind is more of a challenge.
  2. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Michael Hogan
    Feb 8, 2021
    80
    Across six bittersweet vignettes, it adds up to a wryly intelligent treatise on the nature of true love and how we find it.
  3. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Oct 5, 2020
    75
    The six-episode run makes clear that the format offers a vast array of storytelling possibilities, built around the tantalizing promise of better dating through science, with all the cautionary warnings that entails.
  5. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Oct 5, 2020
    70
    Soulmates boasts a ton of great actors putting in fine performances, but you may want to look at the episode descriptions first before plowing forward. There are some that we think will be way more satisfying than others.
  6. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Oct 5, 2020
    70
    There are strong performances from an array of prestige TV’s familiar faces — Malin Akerman and David Costabile of “Billions,” Charlie Heaton of “Stranger Things” and Betsy Brandt of “Breaking Bad,” among them — but the show lapses into the predictable pace of similar anthology series, where the ideas are many but the results are not always captivating. Still, “Soulmates” is a nifty enough show for AMC to serve from its pandemic cupboard.