The Red Tent

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Season 1
  • Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 7, 2014
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
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Critic Reviews

  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Dec 4, 2014
    80
    With Minnie Driver and Morena Baccarin as two of Jacob’s wives, and Debra Winger as Dinah’s blunt-speaking grandmother, the story is engaging both as untold Biblical fable and modern-day television.
  2. The Wrap
    Reviewed by: Diane Garrett
    Dec 5, 2014
    70
    Ferguson's voiceover hits the holiday season sweet spot: Just sentimental enough. Frankly decorous sex scenes and brutal conditions for men and women help save The Red Tent from becoming overly cloying. It's got just enough red blood pulsing through it to avoid that.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Dec 4, 2014
    70
    It is at times charming and different, and a good fit for Lifetime. It just falls short of a higher calling.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Kat Ward
    Nov 26, 2014
    67
    The first half is soapy but enjoyable, anchored by Minnie Driver as Dinah's mom. But plot twists drag down the second act. [5 Dec 2014, p.77]
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  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Robert Rorke
    Dec 3, 2014
    63
    The Red Tent would have benefited from more subtlety--hardly Lifetime’s stock-in-trade. Still, it is a major step up from the network’s usual fare of films.