| HBO Max | Season Premiere Date: February 10, 2022 |
Summary:
Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) moves into a house designed by architect (David Oyelowo), but there are very specific rules she must follow in this adaptation of JP Delaney’s novel of the same name.
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 19 Dec 2021 and in the US on HBO Max on 10 Feb 2022]
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 19 Dec 2021 and in the US on HBO Max on 10 Feb 2022]
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Suspense
Season 1 Episodes
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Feb 11, 2022
The Times
Jan 18, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 9, 2022
The Playlist
Feb 21, 2022
Though the series boasts a strong cast, slick production design, a haunting score from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, and strong material that could make for a captivating four-part limited series, “The Girl Before” feels thematically aimless, in over its head with narrative threads, and more interested in plot twists than creating relatable, believable characters.
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Feb 10, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
The show’s narrative excess comes to seem wasteful and silly — a story about a manipulative architect who wants to help design the lives of the women who live in his construction, and it’s a little boring? And its leveraging of violence against women, including rape, to tell a story that isn’t really worth the time or emotional commitment viewers are asked to make is unfortunate. In all, fans of the book club-thriller genre would be well served by skipping “The Girl Before.”
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Air Date: February 10, 2022
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