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- TV-14
- Lifetime
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles
Season 1 Premiere: 2015
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6.4
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
52
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
25% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The series has a good deal of fun with what such notoriety might have been like in the late-19th century, with children jumping rope to Lizzie’s name, and all the locals casting sideways glances at her in church.
This is period-piece television served with a wink. Just enjoy the notion--sometimes lost amid all of TV’s male murderers--that women too can be wicked.
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles doesn’t quite know what to do with its own self-awareness, but the same can’t be said of its producer-star, who has a winningly evil twinkle in her eye whenever she encounters another problem she can kill her way through.
The premiere is shamelessly vulgar, but it never embraces its schlocky premise. [3 Apr 2015, p.59]
[Ricci's] performance in the first two episodes of Lizzie Borden Chronicles is more a collection of telling looks than substantive scenes. In the early going at least, Hauser makes a stronger impression as the doggedly pursuing Siringo, who otherwise has a soft spot for the abused wife of a prosperous hotel owner.
An eight-episode miniseries sequel that, based on the two installments sent out for review, is content to be unexceptional trash.... What good there is in The Lizzie Borden Chronicles comes exclusively from Ricci and DuVall, who have a delectable rapport not too far removed from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford at their hag-horror peak in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Sumptuous costuming and a believable period setting aren’t enough to make up for weak storylines that intend to make more of killer Lizzie than she actually was.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 User Ratings
6.4
69% Positive
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Production Company:
- Magic Rock Productions
- Sony Pictures Television
- Stan & Deliver Films
Initial Release Date: 2015
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 1 Nomination
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Nomination
Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Nomination
