The Royals
E! | Release Date: March 15, 2015
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
8
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraMar 16, 2015
Season 1 Review: Camp requires courage, and The Royals has none. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterAmy AmatangeloMar 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: The hourlong drama often plays like an extended MTV music video interspersed with dialogue. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsMar 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: Royals is absent any thrill, any of that ticklish delight that makes shows like this pop. Read full review
30
TimeJames PoniewozikMar 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: A wan, chintzy soap that can’t compete with reality–either Britain’s or E!’s. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithMar 12, 2015
Season 1 Review: The Royals is a trashy soap opera that’s not bad enough to be funny and is best when it wallows in melodrama. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryMar 11, 2015
Season 1 Review: Mostly, though, the fluctuations in tone are jarring, from wacky and screwball to earnest and warmhearted at the drop of a tiara. And while subsequent episodes keep spinning out new conflicts and crises, there’s going to have to be some generous grading on a curve to make this qualify as the guilty pleasure it’s clearly intended to become. Read full review
25
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanMar 16, 2015
Season 1 Review: While The Royals swings wildly from satire to sentimentality, from romance to raunch, and from camp to, well, crap, and only in the latter does it find its footing. Read full review
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