The Keepers

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: May 19, 2017
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 45
  3. Negative: 6 out of 45

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  1. jefflynch967
    Nov 24, 2017
    1
    In spite of my low rating, the first two episodes of this series were well-done and compelling. Episode three devolved into self-justification, rationalization, and apology. And episodes three to eight could have, and should have, been handled in one or, at the most, two episodes. The series which, again, started well, became mired in equivalencies, spending as much time discussing statuesIn spite of my low rating, the first two episodes of this series were well-done and compelling. Episode three devolved into self-justification, rationalization, and apology. And episodes three to eight could have, and should have, been handled in one or, at the most, two episodes. The series which, again, started well, became mired in equivalencies, spending as much time discussing statues of limitation reform and fatal lawsuits as it did church sexual abuse and whistleblower murder. It should have stuck with what it did best: the crime.… Expand

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Critic Reviews

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Alex Abad-Santos
    May 22, 2017
    80
    What makes that bigger picture so maddeningly compelling is the way The Keepers explores a pathology of abuse and its effect on victims, chronicles the strange inescapability of trauma, reflects on how society treats the word of women, and reveals the shattering reality that justice can feel so empty.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    May 19, 2017
    70
    In the main, The Keepers is a solid work, one whose immediacy and visceral power is not clouded by tendencies toward the exploitative or prurient.
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    May 19, 2017
    80
    Absorbing and emotionally gripping.
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