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- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2023
- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2023
- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2023
- Netflix
- Nov 2, 2023
All the Light We Cannot See
Season 1
Season Premiere: Nov 2, 2023
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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65% Mixed
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27% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
36
8% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
65% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
27% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
It’s worth watching for Loberti’s outstanding performance and the generally impressive production value, but it’s clear that it could have been so much more.
As a storyteller, Doerr is a master at weaving all these threads and elements together while giving us more nuanced characters, but in this well-intentioned production the stitching and seams that we can see all too often.
At times it is so clichéd it could be a Second World War spoof. It is as if the makers were determined to take what some critics hailed a masterpiece and reduce it to a pat potboiler brimming with constipated dialogue.
The show could be forgiven some shonkiness and self-indulgence if the central chemistry between Marie and Werner was coherent. But the achronological telling wreaks havoc with their relationship, and the German soldier is relegated to a footnote. What’s left is a cartoonish portrait of a Nazi in pursuit of a blind girl’s diamond, which does little credit to the sheer scale of suffering endured in both our recent history and the contemporary moment.
All the Light We Cannot See is visually impressive and can feel like a movie in places, with its glossy production. But, unfortunately, the quality desperately lacks in other places such as the convincing writing of these characters and their four-episode arcs.
Nothing about this final product suggests that Levy or Knight was the right choice to bring this story to the screen. Their vision for Doerr's novel is shallow, messy, and, most unfortunately, instantly forgettable.
A ghastly failure. The glossy adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name flattens morally ambiguous characters into two-dimensional avatars of pure good and absolute evil.
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