Tom Jones (2023)

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Season 1
  • Network: PBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 30, 2023
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. The Observer (UK)
    Reviewed by: Barbara Ellen
    Sep 10, 2024
    60
    While ITV’s Tom Jones seems to aim for the spry comic cadence of something like The Great, it doesn’t quite get there. That said, it has charm.
  2. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    May 5, 2023
    60
    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.
  3. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: James Hibbs
    Apr 28, 2023
    60
    For the most part this is period drama 101, meaning fans of the genre are likely to find much to enjoy here, but may not be bowled over or shook of their expectations.
  5. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Jack Seale
    May 4, 2023
    40
    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.
  6. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    May 4, 2023
    40
    Tom Jones should be a romp but, for long stretches, it’s positively boring.