Tyrant
FX | Release Date: June 24, 2014
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56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
20
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJun 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: In attempting to mix West with Middle East, the show too often seems content with stereotyping both. Read full review
30
TimeJames PoniewozikJun 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Though his Barry is a bit of a stiff, Rayner among the least of the show’s problems. There’s not a fleshed-out character in the show. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJun 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Some ambitious but flawed dramas get better the more you watch. Tyrant is not one of them. The plotting is obvious, the characters broadly and shallowly drawn, and authenticity evaporates the moment you realize everyone in this land is speaking in clipped Faux-rabian British accents like out of some '40s melodrama. Read full review
30
Washington PostHank StueverJun 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: A clumsily written and stultifyingly acted TV drama stocked with tired and terribly broad notions of Muslim culture in a make-believe nation on the brink. Read full review
0
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanJun 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's surprising to me that this ever got past the development stage, because nothing about Tyrant truly works. It's a halting, strained hodgepodge that ends up being an awkward mixture of bland and offensive. Read full review
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