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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Engrossing as it builds to moments of Hitchcockian suspense, the eight-part The Serpent shifts sometimes too dizzying back and forth through time as it dramatizes Sobhrah's merciless crimes. Still, you'll root for those who trying to pin him down. [12 - 25 Apr, p.11]
Apr 1, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, “The Serpent” is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim.
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Mar 31, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Rahim’s is a great, if slow-building, performance, perfectly persuasive in a role riven with secrets and lies. Edireweera and Coleman also locate human frailties in the despicable people they play. The pace of “The Serpent” quickens in its later episodes, whiplashing the audience with well-conceived character revelations, plot reversals and tightening international manhunt mechanics.
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Apr 2, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The first five installments make for a gripping crime series, but the final three act more like a dull document of events. The narrative propulsion all but evaporates, and it is only through the strength of the performances, notably Rahim's, that the series remains watchable as it crawls to a conclusion.
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