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Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Feb 20, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Patience will have to be a virtue across the whole season as well, as the creators expand their world view to varying degrees of success. .... Garner is, unsurprisingly, the MVP here because the show understands she is most engaging as an actress and as a series lead when she isn’t given a chance to catch her breath.
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Apr 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The series stumbles around for a few episodes while it establishes the Hitchcockian ambience (circa “Vertigo” and “The Birds”) and puts in place the clues to Owen’s past that will pay off in later revelations. (The seven episodes run from just 37 to 45 minutes, and the pace is generally brisk.) But it quickly gels into a better-than-average whodunit and a superior family drama, one whose denouement hits you with surprising force.
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Apr 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“The Last Thing He Told Me” is handsomely shot by an all-female team of directors, and each episode builds to one of the novel’s more gobsmacking cliffhangers. Add in Garner’s intuitive performance, and the show makes for a perfectly entertaining experience — albeit one that settles for replicating the novel rather than expanding it.
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Apr 18, 2023
Season 1 Review:
In the end, there’s nothing offensively wrong with this show: It’s got some solid performances, picturesque sets, and zips briskly through episodes that max out at around 40 minutes each (the dream in the era of Peak TV!) But it’s also probably not what you thought you were going to get either. And while that’s not bad, per se, it’s still pretty disappointing.
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The Daily BeastApr 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There is a lot to be said for competence in this arena. The Last Thing He Told Me might not always understand how to keep its own momentum going—in fact, it often has long stretches of extremely middling excursions. ... The Last Thing He Told Me doesn’t overstay its welcome like similar offerings, boasting only seven episodes, most of which are under 40 minutes. It gets the job done, and it does it effectively.
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Apr 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The drama may never get fully engrossing, but it’s perfectly watchable throughout — especially since much of the early action unfolds in a Sausalito floating home so pristine and pretty, Hannah and Bailey might as well be freaking out from within an Architectural Digest home tour. Under this tasteful gloss, however, is a pervasive sense of blandness — in the characters, their relationships and even, somehow, in the story’s unpredictable turns.
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Apr 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
What we’re going to learn about everyone is parceled out in fragments of flashback that don’t do much for the pacing of a series that is ostensibly a thriller but spends much more time musing about relationships and the troubled histories of its principals. ... The performances lean toward the excessively earnest and breathless.
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The PlaylistApr 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
An enviable aesthetic can only takes a show so far, and the visual magic quickly wears thin. Similarly, there are only so many times one can hear Hannah getting warned that she’s in imminent danger before it starts to ring hollow. Even when foot chases happen, they lack an undercurrent of terror.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 20, 2026
Season 2 Review:
Their [Hannah and Owen's] relationship is as nonsensical as the rest. Which isn’t to say there’s nothing to enjoy here. There’s a reason Jennifer Garner is famous. She’s able to make her character exude maternal care while also having a sociopath’s knack for lying and coming up with the right thing to say to get what she wants.
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The GuardianApr 14, 2023
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