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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]
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