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White Lines
Season 1 Premiere: May 15, 2020
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5.4
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Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
53
25% Positive
2 Reviews
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75% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The drama has everything to keep viewers invested, turned on, and watching, potentially even in one sitting. It’s a fun, steamy escape and who would dare pass up one of those?
White Lines has been hyped as the hit of the summer, and even though it will not be the summer any of us were expecting I’d be surprised if this lurid, swirling, fantastically confident creation didn’t hit the spot. Its energetic brio and the escapism-cum-nostalgia-trip (via a soundtrack stuffed with the Happy Mondays, the Farm, Radiohead and all points in between), may be even more rapturously received under current conditions than it would otherwise have been.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
5.4
43% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
35% Mixed
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8 Ratings
22% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
5.4
43% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
35% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
22% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
This is a very unusual show. It’s got romance, sex, drugs,adventure, and melodrama galore. Scenery is awesome, great summer binge show, I loved it! Loved Boxer and Zoe.
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White Lines is unabashedly silly, but there's a serious underpinning that gives it some unexpected grounding.
"White Lines" is all aesthetics, with little underneath. It’s a beach-read that you can watch, and yes, even escape to, if a sporadically amusing romp in Ibiza sounds like a strong antidote for this weekend.
Its avalanche of ludicrous double-crosses, carnal entanglements and long-buried revelations is matched by performances that are uniformly overcooked, with no scene left wanting for furious outbursts, longing gazes, intense introspection or flashes of violence. ... There is no subtext, only blunt, simplistic text. ... But it’s rarely boring, which in the end seems to be the only real goal of this tawdry, titillating affair.
The good stuff is stretched far too thinly and The plot loses its way around the midway point. Several twists in the home stretch are highly implausible. The revival of a long-dormant drug-smuggling storyline smacks of desperation. Characters undergo personality transplants or sexuality switches. The sudden introduction of a “fight club” subplot is flat-out laughable.
The Nineties sections are more interesting, but they come too slowly for us to feel there’s much at stake. White Lines has all the gear, but no idea.
Álex Pina is the creator of the worldwide Netflx hit Money Heist. This is his newest series. A woman travels to Ibiza where her brother disappeared 20 years earlier. He was a wild-living DJ, who was viciously killed. Considering the location and it's rep, there's plenty of decadence with drugs and sex. Considering it's a murder mystery there are a few violent encounters. Layered over top of all that is a healthy dose of soap opera drama, including numerous passionate relationships and family discord. It's not as exciting as Money Heist, but it's well made and the debauched lifestyle adds an element of pleasure. The final episode does pack some powerful revelations.
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Boring "plot", boring characters, and icky gratuitous sex that made me want to take a shower. A complete waste of time.
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Production Company:
- Left Bank Pictures
- Vancouver Media
Initial Release Date: May 15, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Prémios Fantastic
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, Portugal
• 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 1 Nomination
