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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphJul 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
For Australian viewers (Stateless aired on Australia’s ABC earlier this year), the series serves as a both an enthralling thriller and an important chance to reflect on what has happened in their own country. For us in the UK, it’s both those things, as well as an educational portrayal of a side that we rarely see in a country with which we feel so familiar.
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Jul 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
West and Blanchett are at society’s fringes, while anti-immigrant sentiment — as series-ending onscreen titles about the ongoing crisis of Australia’s detention centers, now placed offshore — is at the center of societies the world over. It’s a point “Stateless” makes crisply, one that gains in power from the hairpin-reversing manner through which the series arrives there, and one that makes it urgent viewing.
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The GuardianJul 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Strahovski gets the meatiest arc as Sofie, her journey tied not just to political and bureaucratic situations but a mental illness, the development of which is stretched out over the show’s lengthy running time. This patient, big-thinking approach is reflected in other tangents – such as Ameer’s dramatic backstory, the precise details of it remaining a mystery until more or less the end.
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The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Jul 29, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Stateless is a good reminder that neither the politics nor the human tragedy of immigration has gone away, and that in the United States, the conflation of immigration with hatred for or love of Trump has almost completely obscured the real issue, the immigrants themselves.
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Jul 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While the series, available in the United States on Netflix beginning Wednesday, is well made, well acted and well intentioned, it’s probably less interesting as a social-problem drama than as an example of what even the Cate Blanchetts of the world have to do to get a social-problem drama made.
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Feb 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The two hours screened for audiences in the Berlinale Series sidebar appeared to be an edited sampler of several episodes with a bit of narrative missing and some resultant confusion. But the two main intertwining stories — an Afghan family fleeing the Taliban and a German flight attendant on the run from her personal demons — make an impression as they highlight the contrast between first- and third-world citizens who decide to change countries. ... Strahovski (The Handmaid's Tale) creates an engrossing pop-up character for whom one willingly suspends disbelief.
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RogerEbert.comJul 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There isn’t much of a debate to be had about the counter-productivity of the refugee system, or the gross use of force in maintaining it, and yet “Stateless” wants its characters to have these open debates for the sake of full-force drama. It's this type of “all lives matter” storytelling that constantly keeps “Stateless” out of touch with the humanity that’s truly at stake.
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Jul 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There no doubt that it is a gripping watch and a worthwhile effort, regardless of reasons that may draw in viewers. Whether audiences will effectively process the messages imparted behind the dual serving of celebrity tease and well-meaning white people angst is frustratingly unclear.
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