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Lisey's Story (TV Miniseries)

Lisey's Story

2021

Pablo Larraín

Julianne Moore, Joan Allen, Clive Owen, Jennifer Jason Leigh ...

5.2

460

TV Series. Drama. Horror. Thriller TV Miniseries (2021). 8 Episodes. This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.

	Author	Review
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is surely one of the most novelistic and literary-feeling of King adaptations (...) 'Lisey’s Story' is indeed overflowing with ideas — sometimes grandiose, sometimes goofy — that play better on the page than the screen"	NEU
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"'Lisey’s Story' is, on all fronts, too much. Too long, too over-produced, too many talents, too overwrought, too much going on."	NEG
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[It] doesn’t use Julianne Moore to full effect (...) While it may be Lisey’s story, it’s Scott’s show (...) Lisey’s coming out of grief is, at times, practically a subplot (...) There’s much here that works well"	NEU
Canada	Alex Maidy JoBlo	a limited series that earns a spot alongside the best adaptations of any Stephen King novel (...) Moore and Allen who deliver career highlight acting"	POS
United States	Nick Allen The Playlist	"It has immense range, touching upon every shade of darkness within the human spirit. But it has little tact in how it expresses its themes"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"'Lisey’s Story' has much to admire, but its literary conceits captured in striking but chilly filmmaking do little to get the pulse racing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"It’s one sprawling story; a novel uncomfortably stretched across eight episodes (...) Perhaps this entire adaptation was a mistake"	NEG
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"The leading players all hit the right notes (...) Do you want to suffer sleepless nights? This may be for you."	POS
Canada	Cynthia Vinney CBR	"Despite the involvement of starry names in front of and behind the camera, intriguing fantasy elements and fascinating themes, the show never achieves the resonance it seems to be reaching for"	NEU
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"What it all means isn’t abundantly clear, but the longer 'Lisey’s Story' goes, the more it succeeds as a sensory experience than one governed by logic."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"This flawed but artfully ambitious series rises and falls on how much we believe in the love story at its core (...) Can a streaming series be both maddening and mesmerizing, infuriating and indelible? 'Lisey's Story' can"	NEU

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