The Luminaries

Name: The Luminaries
Genre: Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Action & Adventure, Suspense
Released: February 14, 2021
Rating: 62

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Starz | BBC One | Release Date: February 14, 2021

Summary: Anna Wetherell (Eve Hewson) travels to New Zealand to start a new life during the gold rush in 1866 where she meets Emery Staines (Himesh Patel) and Lydia Wells (Eva Green) in this six-part series based on Eleanor Catton's book of the same name.

[Premiered originally in New Zealand's TVNZ 1 on 17 May 2020, in the UK on BBC One on 21 JuneAnna Wetherell (Eve Hewson) travels to New Zealand to start a new life during the gold rush in 1866 where she meets Emery Staines (Himesh Patel) and Lydia Wells (Eva Green) in this six-part series based on Eleanor Catton's book of the same name.

[Premiered originally in New Zealand's TVNZ 1 on 17 May 2020, in the UK on BBC One on 21 June 2020 and in the US in Feb 2021]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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S1:E6. The Old Moon in the Young Moon's Arms
Air Date: March 29, 2021
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S1:E5. Paradox
Air Date: March 15, 2021
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S1:E4. The Other Half
Air Date: March 8, 2021

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Judy Berman

Feb 12, 2021

Season 1 Review: Instead of making her second telling of The Luminaries a pale imitation of its predecessor, she [Eleanor Catton] offers up yet another set of twins: two consummate works in two different mediums. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Jan 19, 2021

Season 1 Review: The Luminaries is luminous, at least when it’s visible. Not since Peter Jackson’s last elven ad campaign has there been so bewitching a screen vision of New Zealand. Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Jan 19, 2021

Season 1 Review: A cracking, challenging read has become a cracking, unchallenging series and both do their jobs perfectly. Joy. Read full review

Saloni Gajjar

Feb 11, 2021

Season 1 Review: The Luminaries doesn’t dig deep enough into its many possibilities—including any lore of the country it is set in—but Hewson’s soulful performance carries the show forward until its end. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Feb 16, 2021

Season 1 Review: Catton's book is far more adventurous, and it's strange to think that she and her co-writer and series director Claire McCarthy diluted the novel's ambition so completely. The plot's lack of confidence notwithstanding, for some people Green's presence may provide enough reason to drift along from one beautiful sight to the next, unconcerned as to where it's all leading. Read full review

IndieWire Ann Donahue

Feb 16, 2021

Season 1 Review: Like the entire plot of “The Luminaries,” everything in this opening scene is overstuffed and hard to discern. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Jan 19, 2021

Season 1 Review: Watching the first two-and-a-half hours was a bit like being in a drug-addled dream anyway: coherent in some places, baffling in others — weird timelines, plot strings as clear as mud and the production seeming perfectly content with that. The acting, though, is good. Commendable given that the actors are carrying the handicap of a complex novel confusingly boiled down to six episodes. Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 14, 2021
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  S1:E6. The Old Moon in the Young Moon's Arms
  Air Date: March 29, 2021
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  S1:E5. Paradox
  Air Date: March 15, 2021
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  S1:E4. The Other Half
  Air Date: March 8, 2021
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  S1:E3. Leverage
  Air Date: March 1, 2021
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  S1:E2. The Place You Return
  Air Date: February 22, 2021
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  S1:E1. Fingerprint
  Air Date: November 30, -0001