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Positive:
14
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Jul 23, 2025
RogerEbert.comJul 21, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Washington Black” is the story of a boy genius in a world that is parallel to ours and yet just different enough to make us feel like anything is possible, even in a past we already know the outcome of. And that makes it well worth the ride around a treacherous but spectacular world.
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Screen RantAug 29, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Sterling K. Brown is an intriguing mystery as he balances a benevolent, supportive side with a darker nature under the surface of Medwin, and Iola Evans is truly captivating as Tanna. While part of me wishes they were offered better material to work with in parts of the show, they still ultimately succeed in livening it up and making it a worthwhile venture.
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Jul 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Unsurprisingly, it plays more like a miniseries than a novel, amplifying the action, the drama and the romance; beefing up lesser characters; drawing lines under, after all, valid points about prejudice, inequality and injustice; and dressing it up with Hollywood musical cues. Taking the show as a sometimes fantastic historical adventure, those aren’t bad things, but, unlike the book, subtlety is not the series’ strong suit.
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Jul 24, 2025
Season 1 Review:
More pressing, for me, was the question of who Wash is, in terms of his personality. As written and performed, we don’t get much sense of what his own particular internal monologue might be, and this becomes underscored in any scene he shares with Brown’s Medwin, who is such a clearly defined presence by comparison. Brown’s an actor working on a different level than most, and he’s very effective in his few appearances.
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The GuardianJul 23, 2025
Jul 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The visual and melodramatic pleasures of “Washington Black” are too often clouded by the haze of feel-good affirmation; the show’s ending, in particular, is a master class in betraying the spirit of your material. Wash takes to the air, but the show remains earthbound.
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