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Positive:
16
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
The IndependentSep 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
What we’re left with is a series that is too tonally messy to pull off the interesting allegory it is attempting. It’s a shame, and a real missed opportunity: we deserve a bold drama that is unafraid to deal with the alienating effects of postnatal depression and psychosis – but The Changeling is not that show.
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The GuardianSep 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
If being made to feel unsettled is enough for you, The Changeling will make you very happy indeed. So too if you are happy watching great performances hold a proliferating mass of material together. If the thrill provided by daring, innovative television (even if it doesn’t quite come off) is your jam, dig in. If you are seeking answers, narrative satisfaction or resolution – well, stay away, for this show is more full of loose threads than we can understand.
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Sep 7, 2023
Sep 1, 2023The Daily BeastSep 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Changeling desperately wishes to be one thing: a generation-spanning saga detailing the limits of free will versus fortune. Despite coming close, the show is so bogged down by its own ambition and ostentation that it’s destined for a different fate: squandering its immense promise under the weight of stylish, well-acted hubris.
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Sep 15, 2023
Sep 8, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Changeling’s attempt to dress up mythological concepts in 21st-century garb runs headlong into a modern pitfall of a different variety – namely, the TV series that introduces an enticing and layered mystery, only to see its bizarre-baby story advance at something approximating a crawl.
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Sep 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“The Changeling” offers some of the most effective horror I’ve ever seen. The show’s casual, grounded, workaday realism augments the nightmare; the contrast between those registers, whenever they meet, is sharp. Totally arresting. But as the protagonists’ quests weaken their connection to that concrete world, the show’s stakes start to scatter, too, as if pulverized by too many competing symbolic operations.
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Sep 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
For long, baffling stretches, the show seems to abandon its central storyline for no valid reason to indulge in other characters’ arcs that feel weirdly out of context and stripped of any notable significance. And yet, even in the back half of its haywire episodes, The Changeling shows some occasional promise with moments attempting to grasp onto an emotion or idea, but just before any of them could crystallize into something concrete and definite, Marcel cuts them off abruptly.
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Sep 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
By the end of eight episodes, which barely advance the stakes beyond the initial premise and don’t come close to reaching any sort of resolution, I was finding The Changeling to be a murky slog — capable of sparks of inspiration but generally marred by storytelling inconsistencies.
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