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4
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13
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJul 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If "Those About to Die" sometimes feels like a neutered, TV version of that project ["Gladiator 2"] – despite a budget reportedly north of $140 million – it's still entertaining enough for fans of violent period pieces to serve as a hearty appetizer to that likely full meal.
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The IndependentJul 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, Those About to Die is not really for those people whose Roman Empire is the Roman Empire. It is for people who want the ancient world, where the stakes of sex and violence were far lower than the present day, to give licence to something primal, something carnal, in them. Emmerich doesn’t do subtle, and so Those About to Die is suitably, viscerally, bold.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Those About to Die is 10 hours of unashamed guilty-pleasure hokum. [5 - 25 Aug 2024, p.4]
Jul 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
This isn’t the high road to Rome, though neither is it the lowest. There is some history mashed up in here and an evident attempt to fill the screen and story with accurate period details, though the digital effects and backgrounds tend to take one out of the human reality and into a video game.
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The PlaylistJul 18, 2024
The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
With CGI that looks like it’s been made for a Windows XP screensaver, accents that vary from Welsh to English, Italian and French, and cliched lines (“friends close, enemies closer”!) that even have the Oscar-winning Hopkins fighting for his life, and Those About to Die quickly becomes a confusing mess.
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Jul 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Those About to Die was largely directed by Roland Emmerich, and although it has some of the Moonfall and 2012 director’s trademark lunacy, there’s ultimately not nearly enough of that to provide consistent entertainment. As drama, it’s generally bad, but it’s sometimes fun-bad, which I say as somebody who really likes Emmerich in “fun-bad” mode.
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Jul 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Truly, the show tries to be as Thrones-ian as possible and fails in all the important ways at every turn. Those About to Die attempts to weave a complex political tale with characters coming from all walks of life—and immediately trips over all of the threads used to make it.
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IndieWireJul 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Those About to Die” isn’t a worthy successor to anything. It does just enough to pass as an expensive-looking knock-off (my god, wait ’til you see the opening credits) that Peacock can advertise in between Olympic relay races, but there’s no purpose under its shiny armor beyond another misconceived ploy for someone else’s power.
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