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- Lifetime
- Mar 3, 2014
- Lifetime
- Mar 3, 2014
- Lifetime
- Mar 3, 2014
- Lifetime
- Mar 3, 2014
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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42% Positive
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8% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
With Minnie Driver and Morena Baccarin as two of Jacob’s wives, and Debra Winger as Dinah’s blunt-speaking grandmother, the story is engaging both as untold Biblical fable and modern-day television.
It is at times charming and different, and a good fit for Lifetime. It just falls short of a higher calling.
The Red Tent would have benefited from more subtlety--hardly Lifetime’s stock-in-trade. Still, it is a major step up from the network’s usual fare of films.
At times, you might mistake Lifetime's enjoyably earnest Biblical epic The Red Tent for an Old Testament version of Call the Midwife.
The biblical setting provides an arresting backdrop for soapy material that otherwise falls squarely in Lifetime’s wheelhouse.
Fans of the novel will no doubt watch and revel in this relatively big-budget treatment. Others might find its pseudo-biblical, pseudo-feminist mix hard to take.
Though chock-full of plot, it is decidedly short on dialogue, there is little narrative transition and, with a few very notable exceptions, no character development.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
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57% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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