Too Old to Die Young

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Season 1
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 43
  3. Negative: 8 out of 43
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  1. generousreviewe
    Jul 29, 2019
    0
    Don't let the poor pacing distract you from the poor everything else.

    What to praise in a show like this? The costuming? The guy who held the boom mic? Surely someone involved was doing good work, but whoever they were, they certainly didn't have any creative control.
  2. Lambo442
    Jul 24, 2019
    2
    The first episode was incredible. Intense, disturbing, intriguing. But with the second episode everything goes downhill. The characters introduced in Mexico are very flat, they hardly every speak (especially the nephew, who just sits there brooding). There's too much of a pause between each line of dialogue and the long panning shots start to become a chore. It's a real shame as there's aThe first episode was incredible. Intense, disturbing, intriguing. But with the second episode everything goes downhill. The characters introduced in Mexico are very flat, they hardly every speak (especially the nephew, who just sits there brooding). There's too much of a pause between each line of dialogue and the long panning shots start to become a chore. It's a real shame as there's a lot it had going for it, the amazing music by Cliff Martinez of course, the cool plot line established in the first episode, with this corrupt cop trying to balance his love life whilst staying alive. Then it all gets very dull.… Expand
  3. simonmoon
    Jun 20, 2019
    2
    This series looks great, but its super slow pace and that it's largely creepy (in a bad way) and nonsenscial make it almost unwatchable. Cristina Rodlo is undeniably a captivating on screen presence. I'm sure Miles Teller is doing what he's told to do, but it would have been much better had he ignored the director and spoke at a normal pace. What we see and the way people act make meThis series looks great, but its super slow pace and that it's largely creepy (in a bad way) and nonsenscial make it almost unwatchable. Cristina Rodlo is undeniably a captivating on screen presence. I'm sure Miles Teller is doing what he's told to do, but it would have been much better had he ignored the director and spoke at a normal pace. What we see and the way people act make me think, that Refn is an idiotic creep, who thinks he's subverting the very thing he is doing without subverting it at all.… Expand

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#47 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Peter Bradshaw
    Dec 4, 2019
    80
    This is a story about sexual violence and the misogynist spectacle is uncomfortable, although arguably part of the point. It could be that Jena Malone, glimpsed here at any early stage, will have a greater part to play. Too Old To Die Young is macabre, and nauseating in many ways, but very well made and very watchable.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Jun 18, 2019
    40
    [A] limping, baggy megillah, which fails to justify its marathon-length running time as anything more than a self-satisfying, hardboiled-by-numbers folly.
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  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    Jun 14, 2019
    30
    Stylishly crafted but stultifyingly dull. ... Jesus had better be some kind of savior if Too Old to Die Young is going to be more than just a ponderously portentous sleazefest shaken out of its torpor by the occasional bloodbath. [Prime Video only screened episodes 4 and 5]
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