Versailles
Ovation TV | Canal Plus | Release Date: November 16, 2015
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Mixed or average reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Entertainment WeeklyRay RahmanSep 27, 2016
Season 1 Review: Not quite as smart as the recent Wolf Hall or as deliciously decadent as the bygone The Tudors, Versailles fails to live up to its regal potential. [30 Sep 2016, p.54]
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ColliderAllison KeeneOct 5, 2018
Season 3 Review: It’s never silly, in other words, even though it can be exceptionally melodramatic. Read full review
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ColliderAllison KeeneSep 29, 2017
Season 2 Review: In the new season, even more so than before, Versailles embraces its character and courtly drama. Read full review
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ColliderAllison KeeneSep 28, 2016
Season 1 Review: The sprawling story is definitely more concerned with soapy plots than the realities of court and the battle for power between the Protestant and Roman Catholic Church, a la Wolf Hall, but like Versailles itself the results are charmingly ostentatious. Read full review
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VarietySonia SaraiyaSep 20, 2016
Season 1 Review: It is frequently lovely to behold. The real Versailles is of course gorgeous, and the series renders the palace through expensive sets and substantial on-location filming. But like the plot, the prettiness is a little superficial; this is more the CW’s “Reign” than Starz’s “Outlander.” Read full review
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Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanSep 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: Versailles has glamor and spectacle, but it’s hardly an epic drama. It dreamily drifts along for the first few episodes, introducing the characters and concentrating on outrageous behavior. All the military-strategy sessions blur together. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 27, 2016
Season 1 Review: The first four episodes of the series are rather talky, although heaven knows there are moments of eye-opening action of the carnal variety. ... But the talk, at least, is revealing and sophisticated, not to mention often filled with intrigue. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichSep 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: The series looks astoundingly cheap. ... The anachronistic electronic score by Eduardo Noya Schreus, aka NOIA, gives a galvanizing jolt to what is otherwise an irritatingly unoriginal production. Read full review
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