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Critic Reviews
Jul 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
A lovely period piece that contains several top-notch performances. Featuring Kelsey Grammer, Matt Bomer and Jennifer Beals doing some of their best work, The Last Tycoon wraps its most unforgiving truths expensive satin and drapes them in softly lit diamonds. At its best, the series recalls the melancholy elegance of some of the best films of the 1930s.
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Jul 28, 2017
Jul 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Amazon series can play like an old Hollywood movie one minute, self-consciously gabby and filled with witticisms. The next, it’s a smart glitzy contemporary soap opera or sly but telling commentary on the entertainment business. Sometimes it bounces a bit too much between the different aspects. Sometimes things mesh nicely, and the series is never boring.
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Jul 20, 2017
Season 1 Review:
At its best, The Last Tycoon is an absorbing trip back to Hollywood's not-so-Golden Age. And even when it slips, it's still pretty good melodrama, with desperate characters, unexpected deaths and gorgeous people pretending they're keeping it together even when they're not.
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Jul 27, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Melodrama has its pleasures, and some viewers will doubtless happily be caught in the stories’ myriad threads. And some performances win out over the material, most notably Rosemarie DeWitt as Brady's wife, Rose, who feels complicated and touching and human with whatever dramatic heavy lifting she's asked to do.
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Jul 24, 2017TV Guide MagazineJul 20, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It's absolutely gorgeous to behold in its sumptuous re-creation of 1930s Hollywood glamour, yet glacial in pace, only sporadically catching dramatic fire. [24 Jul - 6 Aug 2017, p.15]
RogerEbert.comJul 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The show looks beautiful enough and has been so well-cast that those qualities can sometimes be enough when you’re looking for a streaming option on a hot summer weekend. It’s just ironic that a show about the dark underside of Hollywood can only really be appreciated as a superficial distraction.
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Jul 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
As long as Stahr remains detached, disturbingly calm in the midst of deception, betrayal and chaos, this Tycoon entertains and engages. By the second half, though, Ray makes the mistake so many others have made in adapting Fitzgerald: He falls back on the melodramatic surface and jettisons the thematic complexity beneath.
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ColliderJul 27, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Though the early episodes are stuck with some trite dialogue clunkers (“everybody who comes into contact with you pays for it!”), The Last Tycoon is at its best when its showcasing the inner workings of the studios: the jealousy, the rush of production, and the prognostication of what audiences will love.
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Jul 27, 2017
Season 1 Review:
[The Last Tycoon is] full of awkward, hokey dialogue and clumsy contrivances. Even the production values are mediocre; the occasional clips meant to replicate ’30s-era movies are especially phony and unconvincing. Fitzgerald based Monroe on real-life studio executive Irving Thalberg, but the show has Thalberg appear as a separate character, and the consistently ineffective mix of real and fictional characters highlights how poorly the series captures such a fascinating world.
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UPROXXJul 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The suits, hats, gowns, and sets all look smashing, and the actors are strong, particularly Bomer ratcheting up his boyish charm to its most potent in order to convey how justly beloved Monroe is in an otherwise-cutthroat town. But the characters all feel like stock types borrowed from other series, even if many of them were created by Fitzgerald back in his final days, and the whole thing feels a bit dull. I have all the love in the world for tales of pre-WWII Hollywood, but ran out of patience with this one by the end of the fourth episode.
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Jul 27, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The writing feels (and sounds) like it wants to mimic the era without showing an ounce of believability, even though several fine actors do their best with the material. The overall effect is superficial rather than immersive, and there's rarely a moment in The Last Tycoon when you're not hyper aware that you're watching actors act like they're in a period piece, spouting dialogue that sounds like it's rehashing conversations from past movies.
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