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Sexy Beast (TV Series)

Sexy Beast

2024

Michael Caleo

James McArdle, Emun Elliott, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Moyer ...

5.1

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TV Series. Drama TV Series (2024-). 1 Season. 8 Episodes. The origin story of the Gal Dove, Don Logan and Teddy Bass. Explore Gal and Don’s complicated relationship as Gal finds himself descending into the seductive madness of the London criminal world during the vibrant and volatile 1990s, while falling in love with DeeDee.

	Media	Author	Review
		Leila Latif The Guardian	"The chemistry is dull, the story simplistic and the violence weirdly perverted. Even the cast seem to lack enthusiasm for this spinoff to the Ray Winstone-starring gangster film (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Hogan Telegraph	"This is a deeply unsexy beast (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Alison Herman Variety	"Acompact, funny, philosophical take on the past’s refusal to stay in the past. But the film’s new adaptation, an eight-episode series of the same name on Paramount+, never escapes its predecessor’s shadow"
		James Jackson The Times	"It's a shame when scenes capitulate to cartoonishly sleazy brutality (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Karl Quinn The Age	"Personally, I think Caleo has done a pretty decent job (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Hamish Macbain London Evening Standard	"A series that will please absolutely no one: least of all, I suspect, devotees of the film on which it is based (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Elijah Gonzalez Paste Magazine	"A tedious prequel that doesn't need to exist"
		Fletcher Peters The Daily Beast	"The misdemeanors are fun and well-choreographed, quick and exciting burgles that keep the crime aspect of the show moving. But it's Don and Gal's relationship that really makes 'Sexy Beast' so watchable"
		Joel Keller Decider	"Not only is 'Sexy Beast' a series that feels unnecessary, given its connections to a film that wasn't a big hit a quarter century ago, but it doesn't even rise to the level of being a good heist show on its own merits"
		Alex Maidy JoBlo	"I would love to see if a second season of 'Sexy Beast' can improve upon the first, but I hope audiences will discover this show and seek out the brilliant movie that inspired it even more"

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