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- 2018
- TV-MA
- Paramount Network
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Paramount Network
Summary Based on the movie by the same name, the dark comedy reboot finds J.D. (James Scully) and Veronica (Grace Victoria Cox) dealing with the Heathers led by Heather Chandler (Melanie Field), her second in command Heather Duke (Brendan Scannell), and cheerleader Heather McNamara (Jasmine Mathews).
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Paramount Network
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Paramount Network
Heathers (2018)
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 11, 2018
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5.4
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Summary Based on the movie by the same name, the dark comedy reboot finds J.D. (James Scully) and Veronica (Grace Victoria Cox) dealing with the Heathers led by Heather Chandler (Melanie Field), her second in command Heather Duke (Brendan Scannell), and cheerleader Heather McNamara (Jasmine Mathews).
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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22% Positive
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22% Mixed
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56% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
40
22% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
56% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
The adults are as hilariously clueless as you’d dare hope, the kids fling zingers like they’ve been mainlining All About Eve, and the series’ unexpected heart actually answers the question, “What’s your damage?” In short, Heathers slays.
It is thrilling, with wit as gentle as a chainsaw. The network has toned down the finale by cutting the prom-bombing climax, and replacing it with nothing much. The show fizzles in the home stretch, but it is easy to imagine a showrunner’s cut of “Heathers” that fills it out as a pop-surrealist masterpiece. ... The show is painfully sharp in its portrayal of the way grief is performed on social media and I.R.L. It is similarly brutal in its lampooning of national deformities.
Provocative idea. ... But with plastic characters and off-brand nastiness, neo-Heathers is an inadvertent MAGA fever dream, so cynical about identity politics that it forgets to give anyone an identity. [9 Mar 2018, p.51]
Tiresome nasty camp cartoon homage to 1989's pitch-black cult comedy. [5 Mar - 18 Mar 2018, p.13]
Paramount Network's TV take on Heathers is a one-note disappointment, taking certain surface-level detours from the movie and adding precious little scathing insight of its own.
Heathers is hardly the first 30-year-old movie to receive a modern reboot, but it's hard to think of a more misguided re-conception, one that has updated the premise -- in a clumsy attempt to be provocative -- in wholly muddled and off-putting ways.
It wasn't worth salvaging what remains a repugnant, mean-spirited attempt at satire that uses smug wokeness as a hall pass to play into every offensive stereotype imaginable.
User Score
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Based on 26 User Ratings
5.4
46% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 26 User Ratings
5.4
46% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
42% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Lakeshore Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Jul 11, 2018
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
