Wormwood

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 15, 2017
Metascore
82

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
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Critic Reviews

  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Dec 14, 2017
    60
    A mildly intriguing if somewhat overwrought docu-series for Netflix
  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Dec 18, 2017
    50
    If it were a two-hour film, Wormwood might be a brilliant, uneasy dive into dark CIA history, and its long-term ramifications for family members whose loved ones were sacrificed for the nebulous cause of “national security.” Running twice that long, it loses all energy and dramatic propulsion. Still, Morris makes a persuasive case that there’s sinister stuff to be unraveled here.

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#25 Best TV Season of 2017
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#34 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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User Score
5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 57
  3. Negative: 23 out of 57
  1. EludiumQ36
    Dec 30, 2017
    2
    I was hoping this was going to be a slightly fictionalized, fast-paced dramatization, but no, it's a boring - sorry - documentary that playsI was hoping this was going to be a slightly fictionalized, fast-paced dramatization, but no, it's a boring - sorry - documentary that plays out in the '50s and '70s, ugh. Like many books you read, there's just way too much spurious, expository detail included. For me - please get to the point. As such I didn't even make it through ep 1. But see, everyone, EVERYONE knows by now that the federal govt is all about abuse of power instead of governing, that's why there is scandal after scandal after scandal. Now in the early '70s we as a people weren't so jaded yet. But since then we've seen horrible abuses by the DoD, EPA, FBI, CIA, and NSA, as well as the Office of the President with Nixon's Watergate, Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal, and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. So when "Wormwood" is revealing that the CIA did this horrible thing, my response is "tell me something I don't know." It's par for the course. Another decade, another scandal that's made public. Netflix shouldn't have commissioned this, it clearly should've been a PBS documentary.… Full Review »
  2. Prosmooth
    Dec 19, 2017
    10
    It will be awhile before I forget the closing monologue from the son who has wasted his life trying to prove that the CIA murdered his father.It will be awhile before I forget the closing monologue from the son who has wasted his life trying to prove that the CIA murdered his father. How very, very sad.… Full Review »
  3. geewah
    Jan 15, 2021
    6
    Would of been better as a feature length rather than a docu-series. Interesting enough.
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