- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 25, 2024
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It’s all too tame to function as a rowdy sex comedy or serve as a satirical send up of the upper classes and their orgiastic excesses. Even after the characters start banging across their strict 14th-century class divides, it doesn’t seem to have much of substance to say.
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The series lacks nuance, its point of view is about as sharp as a daytime soap opera, and for the life of me I don’t know how these scripts made it into production. This is perhaps the worst series to hit the airwaves since HBO’s “The Time-Traveler’s Wife,” a feat I did not even think possible.
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There’s really no excuse for “The Decameron,” the new eight-part Netflix series. There were a number of ways it could have been done right, but it was done wrong. Terribly, ridiculously and pointlessly wrong.