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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastFeb 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Those looking for Succession-style density here will have to keep searching. But that doesn’t mean that The Regime isn’t clever. This is one of the most shrewd and unexpected affairs that HBO has pursued in a moment, and under the rule of Winslet’s manic genius, audiences should flock to its wacky wits in droves.
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Mar 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“The Regime” has a keen eye for the aesthetics of fascism, from an absurd woman-of-the-people photoshoot in a cabbage patch to Eurovisionesque extravaganzas. Just because these spectacles are laughably tacky doesn’t mean they’re without menace. And in the psychosexual folie à deux between Vernham and Zubak, there’s a canny use of infatuation as a metaphor for a cult of personality.
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Mar 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Above all, HBO’s latest series, The Regime, is about the joys of watching one of her generation’s greatest actors chewing scenery with gusto as a power-hungry, germaphobe of a stateswoman eager to make sure her vanity and her ambitions (both for herself and for her country) are in fine alignment as she navigates increased tensions within and abroad.
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The PlaylistFeb 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The final episode, in particular, feels rushed, as if Tracy had a bunch of new ideas to explore and not enough time to do so. Having said that, “The Regime” is never boring, and the first few episodes are as sharply written as anything that’s been on HBO for a long time.
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Feb 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If The Regime is rarely as funny as a zippy satire should be (it doesn't have a ton of actual jokes, and the comedy is often met with more of an exhale-through-your-nose acknowledgement than an actual laugh), it's the delicious push and pull of that relationship that keeps you watching.
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Feb 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Her [Elena's] performance is magnetic; the satire less confident. The story hurtles through a year of chaos, and the ride turns shakier when the tone shifts to straight dramatic thriller. The series feels leery of engaging with the ugly, xenophobic aspects of modern autocracy. It is more comfortable as the story of a demented ruler than a depraved ideology.
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Feb 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
For a comedy about authoritarian rule to be truly funny, especially in an era with many crazier real-world examples, it needs to be “Borat”-style over the top. The six-episode “Regime” never gets there. Instead, this limited series plays everything subtle and low-key, refusing to indulge in the satire of the situations presented.
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The TimesSep 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There is an obvious grotesque absurdity to many of her moments that cannot help but prompt uneasy, horrified laughter. As the series progresses the sheer oddness of the setting becomes more familiar, and the show can breathe with a lot more ease than the spore-phobic Vernham can. But it is most effective, and affecting, in its darker moments.
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The GuardianApr 8, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are some good lines (the Succession-esque “His profits are fucked like a spring donkey”) and some moments that, however unsubtle, cannot help but raise a smile. .... But overall, the comedy and the drama fall flat. The scattershot aim at everything and nothing leaves the viewer groping for sense and meaning. It feels like a waste of a very good opportunity and a large number of very, very good people.
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Mar 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
As the series goes on, changing its spots, the fate of its protagonists becomes less compelling and (within a range of unpredictability) more obvious; the comedy fades and one disinvests from the drama. It’s a sum that’s less than its disparate parts. But I did like the parts.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A rare misfire that's too heavy-handed and cynically predictable to score as political satire and too silly to resonate as an allegory of dangerously despotic government. Luckily, this Regime is ruled by Kate Winslet. [11 - 31 Mar 2024, p.5]
Mar 4, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"The Regime", is a series of contradictions, wildly inconsistent in the course of a single episode. If you can get through the sluggish bits (particularly the last three of its six episodes), there's a lot of fun to be had until the bitter end of this absurd ride with Winslet and the rest of the talented cast.
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Mar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Despite the first-class production design, the game efforts of the ensemble cast and some admirably big swings for the fences, “The Regime” isn’t one of those series where you to love to watch people who are terrible, a la the aforementioned “Succession” and “Veep,” or “The Sopranos” or “Breaking Bad.” In this case, we’re stuck with a group of mostly loathsome individuals who commit the cardinal sin of not being all that interesting while they’re being horrible.
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Mar 1, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Regime may be timely, but it’s not particularly funny, edifying, or insightful. .... Elena can be confounding, but in Winslet’s hands, she’s never boring, and Riseborough’s Agnes — the only character with a modicum of empathy — makes the series’ overall misanthropy a touch more bearable.
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RogerEbert.comMar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Were “The Regime” slightly better written, it could at least plead an identity crisis. But it doesn’t even get that far. It’s not funny enough to be a brutal satire about a needy, power-hungry airhead and her sycophants. (HBO already did that and called it “Veep.”) It’s not insightful enough to engender empathy for its despicable characters’ vulnerabilities. (Ditto, “Succession.”) Hell, it’s not even unhinged enough to count as a European politics-inspired remake of “The Idol.”
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Feb 29, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Narratively and thematically incoherent, “The Regime” offers no one to root for. That’s fine. But it’s hard to feel any investment in the outcome. There’s some middling critique of the U.S. and its paternalistic approach to geopolitical diplomacy, but it lacks the guts to get real jabs in.
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