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- Starz
- Nov 2, 2015
- Starz
- Nov 2, 2015
Summary The eight-episode drama series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a ballerina with a troubled past as she joins a prestigious New York's ballet and faces a volatile artistic director (Ben Daniels) and her own past.
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
- Starz
- Nov 2, 2015
- Starz
- Nov 2, 2015
Summary The eight-episode drama series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a ballerina with a troubled past as she joins a prestigious New York's ballet and faces a volatile artistic director (Ben Daniels) and her own past.
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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32% Positive
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47% Mixed
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21% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
52
32% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The show is too thoughtful to be dismissed as kitschy fun.
It’s intriguing for its setting and some of its stories--although the fine arts world in New York does call to mind the lighter “Mozart in the Jungle” on Amazon--and yet at the same time it’s often predictable in its premium cable-style plotting and pretentiousness, which is where the irritation comes in.... And yet, Flesh and Bone proved highly addictive, encouraging a binge of all its episodes in just a few days.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.5
63% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
12% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
25% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.5
63% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
12% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
25% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
Uma minisserie intensa e forte, um tapa na cara de muitas pessoas. Mostrou o lado ruim das coisas, a que ponto o ser humano pode chegar para subir na vida, o lado ruim do ballet e toda a ganancia das pessoas. Sem falar que a serie mostrou a Sindrome da protagonista de uma forma incrivel, fazendo com que o publico entenda que isso é algo que acontece no dia a dia de varias pessoas
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SEASON 1
The best parts of the eight-part limited series are when everyone's on their toes.... Too bad that whenever Flesh and Bone shifts focus from dance, it risks becoming flat-footed. [9-22 Nov 2015, p.12]
For conveying such a rich sense of authenticity alone, for showing us the physical rigors facing those whose goal is to challenge gravity, Flesh and Bone deserves praise. The actors playing dancers are all professional dancers, too, so that the practice scenes are lovely and don’t require much dodgy camerawork. The storytelling, alas, leaves something to be desired.
If the show had demonstrated more confidence in ballet’s ability to transfix audiences and ditched all the rib-sticking melodrama (at an extremely padded 60 minutes, every single episode drags), it could have been something really special.
Walley-Beckett could have easily told a much simpler tale with greater effect--it's not as if ballet drama is such a crowded field that a writer needs a new twist. Instead, she weighs down the real drama with clichés, lurid B plot and lots of absurd nudity.
Flesh and Bone is, from the very start, pretty obviously a bad television show, a pretentiously somber affair punctuated by bursts of camp.
This series is a mixed bag--compelling in some ways, repellant in others. Production values are quite good, and I enjoyed the acting on the whole. What I found galling was the **** displayed by a number of dancers toward each other--to the point of being unrealistic (surely!). But what I found especially off-putting was the ballet company's artistic director, Paul Grayson. I'm glad that this series is only one season long; I couldn't stomach viewing another with that insufferably selfish and melodramatic ass.
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SEASON 1
In my opinion, this show isn't much about ballet but about mental illness. Almost every character on this show is deeply disturbed. But unfortunately, it's not like you could relate to them. Instead, it's almost unbearable to watch these people who behave unbelievably destructive and ruthless.
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SEASON 1
The problem with Flesh and Bone and The Black Swan is that they portray the ballet world in such a dark, dreary, negative light that it seems no one would ever want to be a dancer. And yet thousands of kids around the world study for years to join companies, chasing that holy grail to perhaps become a lead dancer. It's because there's a lot of joy in dancing, and there's also friendship and comraderie among the dancers, as well as competition. Movies like The Turning Point, The Company, Center Stage and The Ballerina, a documentary, capture that world more realistically because they depict the beauty of ballet and the fulfillment and happiness the dancers feel practicing, rehearsing, and performing.
Flesh and Bone would be a much better series if it didn't insinuate that only the damaged participate in ballet.
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SEASON 1
I'm sorry but after watching the first episode of Flesh and Bone--- how do you cast this show in a feminist light? Flesh and Bone is to feminism what the TV show Revenge is to Macbeth. The longest screen time devoted to choreography was the pole dancing scene, which actually and with a straight face tries to convey that the ballet dancer lives in a $18-million Manhattan condo cause she's moonlighting as a stripper/lapdancer.
"Clare" comes across like a timid rabbit, on the verge of tears with trembling lips half of the time, doesn't get a single smart line of dialogue and willingly lets herself be used as a tool for ****, did she clean that stain off the guy's tie yet?
And of course the company director is a **** monster-Caligula who lords over his female slaves like there's no tomorrow.
"This crazy thing happened that sort of felt like a lightning strike and the Muse showed up, and I knew what the whole thing was. I started writing it down longhand as fast as I could."
May be Ms. Walley- Beckett would have a better script on her hands if she had actually spend some time with a real company after leaving that motel room.
Flesh and Bone is another trashy exploitation drama dressed up as a show about female protagonists.
Watch Save The Last Dance or Centerstage for honest, superior storytelling about the world of dance and young women.
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