- Network: IFC
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 8, 2015
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The Spoils Before Dying is almost too well-made at times.
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Gleefully absurd and filled with terrific comic performances--Wiig and Rudolph are stand-outs in the first two episodes--The Spoils Before Dying marks another winning offbeat comedy from IFC.
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The Spoils Before Dying is a huge step up, arguably even better than its predecessor, but it could have shed some of the weight and become truly great.
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As genre satire, Spoils is amusing. As film study, it's informative. As a viewing experience? Uneven: Sometimes funny, a little more often not.
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Spoils Before Dying is funnier than “Babylon.” The earlier miniseries spoofed ’40s melodramas, but this year’s model takes a narrower approach, mining the staples of the even more formulaic noir films, capturing the excesses of the hard-boiled dialogue and pushing them just far enough over the edge to knock you out of your chair.
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It is in some respects a three-hour sketch, but one made with attention to detail and an effective emotional through-line.
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The Spoils Before Dying, which lampoons Hollywood's classic films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s, is a much more assured and accomplished piece of filmmaking. But it's not nearly as wonderfully original or manic as its predecessor.
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The Spoils Before Dying fluctuates wildly from very clever to somewhat exhausting, but it gets better as it goes along, or perhaps I just got accustomed to its unique sense of humor.
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Even when it drags a tad early on, there is always something good coming down the pike.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 10
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Mixed: 2 out of 10
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Negative: 4 out of 10
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Jul 19, 2015
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Jul 9, 2015