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- USA
- Jun 21, 2016
- USA
- Jun 21, 2016
- USA
- Jun 21, 2016
- USA
- Jun 21, 2016
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Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
59
33% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
67% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
For the most part, the success of the series rests almost entirely on the revelation of its main character. Fortunately, Braga appears to be all USA could have hoped for, and more.
Queen of the South, based on the first three episodes, knows how to dawdle a little without ever slowing to a crawl. The action scenes are gripping, the language can be rough within the expanding confines of ad-supported basic cable and the glimpses of the flesh are fairly bold at times.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 User Ratings
6.9
64% Positive
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25 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
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18% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 User Ratings
6.9
64% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
18% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
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There’s promise for Queen of the South to diverge into some quality, captivating TV – it has the protagonist to do it--but its shelf life is already reading as worryingly stale.
What Queen needs to decide is if it wants to tell the complicated origin story of a drug lord, Breaking Bad-style, or if it’s fine being a shallow-but-entertaining thriller. Right now, it’s trying to be both, and, as the first episode shows, straddling the line can be a one-way ticket to ruin.
Judging by Episode 1, Queen of the South faces some tough going. But it's too early to write it off altogether.
The pilot of Queen of the South, whose 13-episode first season begins on Thursday, flops back and forth between straightforward, violent action and melodramatic excess, and doesn’t do a very interesting or exciting job with either.
The queenpin's past as a minor drug-trade figure's girlfriend is compressed in the pilot to the point that it's nearly impossible to avoid stereotypes. Since that's the opposite of what occurred in telenovela adaptations like the CW's Jane the Virgin and ABC's earlier Ugly Betty, Queen of the South starts off looking like a step backward, a show that instead of building a bridge between cultures--we have our Breaking Bad, why shouldn't they?--chooses instead a wall.