The White Queen

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Season 1
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 52 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 52
  3. Negative: 3 out of 52
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#67 Best TV Season of 2013
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#49 Most Shared TV Season of 2013

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Aug 12, 2013
    50
    There are many powerful scenes in The White Queen, moments that illustrate time and again how a woman's body was both her greatest tool and her inevitable prison; a man could control his fate by mind or sword, a woman can do it only by proxy. Unfortunately, they are surrounded by the misty, swampy lands of generic medievalness.
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  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Aug 12, 2013
    60
    Each of them [actresses Rebecca Ferguson, Faye Marsay and Amanda Hale] stabs backs and pops bodice buttons with the necessary élan while keeping a straight face at The White Queen’s putative moral, which is that arranged marriages are corrupt and evil, while those born of attempted rape, self-mutilation and suicide are sacred and empowering.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Aug 9, 2013
    70
    The White Queen is gauzier than “The Tudors,” and it contains more overacting; but it scratches the same itch.
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