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7
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5
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Critic Reviews
May 10, 2023TV Guide MagazineMay 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Gwyneth Hughes' brisk four-part adaptation nestles snugly in the Masterpiece costume-drama comfort zone. [8 - 21 May 2023, p.6]
Apr 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This is a low-commitment and easy watch that should satiate period piece lovers with its subtle comedy, outlandish recurring characters and gorgeous handmade costumes. But make no mistake: While “Tom Jones” contains themes of identity, class and what it means to be a woman of the time, at its core this is just another situational romcom in britches.
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Apr 28, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A far more gentle-bordering-on-bloodless treatment of the 1749 Henry Fielding novel. ... Ms. Wilde and Mr. McLeod are an attractive pair, ever sympathetic and beset by the characters around them, who are all very busy thwarting their romance—and providing what juice there is in this "Tom Jones." ... Hannah Waddingham, who as the physically epic and epically randy Lady Bellaston steals the entire series.
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The TimesMay 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Yes, there are some “reimaginings” here in Gwyneth Hughes’s bucking, frisky Tom Jones script. But she has distilled a funny, sprawling novel into four shortish episodes while keeping its essence rather well. If you don’t mind it bobbing along at a surface, jolly, sometimes vanilla canter.
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The GuardianMay 4, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Waddingham is a real presence, shifting from sexy to funny to bitterly tragic with ease. But even she can’t make Lady Bellaston’s scenes with Tom sizzle, because he merely lets her happen to him: like this version of his story, he wanders politely without much purpose.
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