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Positive:
6
Mixed:
11
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Jun 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Overall, “The Waterfront” is the Netflix equivalent of a beach read, but it’s highly entertaining. The series boasts all the good bone structure of a traditional family drama, with threads of criminality, infidelity, lies, drugs and everything in between woven throughout each episode.
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Jun 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“The Waterfront” seems unlikely to be as seismic as some of Williamson’s best-loved work, but it does have more bite than many other streaming dramas set in beach towns with surprisingly high murder rates. The dialogue is at least occasionally snappy, and McCallany and Bello make excellent sparring partners.
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Jun 20, 2025
Screen RantAug 29, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While the character development of the core family could use some work, The Waterfront has some great crime thriller scenes propelled by Topher Grace's infectious and much-needed villain, who single-handedly made the otherwise passable Netflix crime thriller series worthwhile.
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Jun 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Despite the excellent cast, there were lines and situations that were so clunky and predictable that we shook our heads that they made it to the final cut. But there is an interesting twist at the end of the episode that leads us to believe that some of the clunkiness will eventually be ironed out.
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The IndependentJun 19, 2025
RogerEbert.comJun 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The best thing about “The Waterfront” is a string of truly spectacular and nicely choreographed murders that’ll get your schadenfreude pumping. It’s because the various romantic entanglements don’t heat up enough to sizzle. While these scofflaw characters are chock full of scandals, salaciousness, and secrets, they’re missing the complexities that yank us into more addictive dramas.
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Jun 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Everything’s a little fuzzy, lacking in detail. Characters put on attitudes and get in and out of trouble — there are shootings and scrapes, surprising reveals and shocking events — but few are, or seem about to develop into, interesting people. .... There’s enough activity that some viewers, possibly a lot of them, will dig in just to see how this thing caroms into that.
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The Daily BeastJun 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
In the first few episodes of Netflix’s new drama The Waterfront, a man is tortured via shark, a woman is nearly set on fire in her suburban driveway, and a body gets dropped into an alligator-filled swamp. Yet the most remarkable thing of all is how boring it all feels.
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