Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Apr 1, 2021
    30
    The Serpent ends up being an infuriating blueprint for how bad storytelling choices, bad accents and an opaque central performance can thwart even the most inherently gripping of yarns.
User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Apr 5, 2021
    7
    No wonder a lot of woke critics don't like the show: The victims are white, naïve, hippies, the original version of woke cretins, that fallNo wonder a lot of woke critics don't like the show: The victims are white, naïve, hippies, the original version of woke cretins, that fall victims to their own simplistic, narrow-minded views of the world à la "Kathmandu is a paradise" ....through the hands of an anti-white hate-filled Asian racist.
    Throw any woke idiot into Beijing, Tehran, Cairo or Istanbul today. Same thing would happen.

    PS: I'm French, from a generation that remembers Sobhraj and I live in Asia. News: Asians look down on you, liberal retards. Since the 60's.
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  2. Apr 13, 2021
    9
    Great acting. The back and forth in the timeline works to the benefit of the story. I was captivated. One of the best shows I have watched inGreat acting. The back and forth in the timeline works to the benefit of the story. I was captivated. One of the best shows I have watched in 2021 so far Full Review »
  3. May 14, 2021
    10
    This show is fantastic. Had me gripped from beginning to end.
    Pretty brutal the events that happened to these people but the story telling is
    This show is fantastic. Had me gripped from beginning to end.
    Pretty brutal the events that happened to these people but the story telling is very well done.
    Glad I stumbled upon this.
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