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Critic Reviews
Jan 12, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The need to compress history leads to moments that are maudlin or heavy-handed.
But [Daisy Goodwin] has a Julian Fellowes-like ability to keep a story moving and fill it with interesting, engaging characters. ... But the engine of the show, the thing that keeps it from being just another period soap opera, is Jenna Coleman’s inexhaustible, tremendously engaging portrayal of Victoria, a performance whose easy charm can obscure the fact that it’s as subtle and witty as anything Claire Foy does as Elizabeth II in “The Crown.”
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Jan 13, 2017
Jan 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The result is a show that’s very different and much pulpier than The Crown and its attendant elegance. It doesn’t wield the weight or depth of that Netflix gem, but depending on your appetite for royal camp, Victoria boasts plenty of moments where it’s far more deliciously fun.
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Jan 13, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It’s a perfectly fine series, and offers much for fans of historical drama to savor, including heavy doses of romance; costumes rife with voluminous skirts and elaborate tiaras; political and dramatic intrigue; the subtext of actual events, with which, naturally, some liberties have been taken.
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Jan 13, 2017
Season 1 Review:
This production seems to strive for a cross between Gossip Girl and Downton Abbey, and is thus an amusing trifle. ... Coleman is very good at portraying both sides of the Victoria depicted here: nervous adolescent romantic, and intelligent, wily influencer of government policy.
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Jan 9, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The performances are solid and the production is aptly luxe, but that's about it. The villains are comically one-dimensional, the dialogue is uneven, and there's entirely too much boring upstairs-downstairs drama. [13 Jan 2017, p.58]
The TimesJan 7, 2020
Season 3 Review:
Anyone who has followed Victoria knows that it puts history through a soap opera wash with exotic floral fabric conditioner. Yet what comes out at the end is usually entertaining, if often perfumed and melodramatic. This opener brought the same lip-glossed, high-production values, but was a bit samey-samey and would have felt flat without the shot in the arm that was cocksure (literally) Lord Palmerston, played by Laurence Fox.
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The GuardianDec 4, 2019
Season 3 Review:
As ever, it all hinges on Jenna Coleman’s performance as Victoria and her ability to conjure up a portrait of this queen as understanding, sympathetic, kind and decent, even under unimaginable and possibly imaginary pressures. It might not be elegant and it might not survive the strain of putting its plot points to the search engine test, but as diverting drama it gets the job done.
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Jan 11, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The result is a miniseries that’s easy on the eyes and generally more interesting when capable actors like Jenna Coleman, who plays Victoria, and Rufus Sewell, as her advisor Lord Melbourne, imbue the dialogue and character psyches with more depth than the scripts provide. Subplots about secondary and tertiary characters, which feel like castoffs from lazier “Downton Abbey” seasons, frustrate for a variety of reasons, not least because they’re executed with a lack of flair and originality.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
As costume drama, Victoria will likely be a crowd-pleaser, but here's hoping next season finds a more fulfilling balance. [2-15 Jan 2017, p.18]
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