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On Becoming a God in Central Florida
SummaryKrystal Stubbs (Kirsten Dunst) works at a water park in Florida while trying to make it to the top of a pyramid scheme run by Obie Garbeau II (Ted Levine)in this dark comedy set in the 1990s.
Season Premiere: 
May 25, 2019
Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.3
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
86% Positive
19 Reviews
14% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Aug 19, 2019
100
Sioux City Journal
Dunst takes risks and they pay big dividends. ... Emmy worthy. [Theodore Pellerin as Cody] is one of the best performances of the year. It makes you want to discover what drives him and where he’ll finally wind up. Others, though, are equally compelling. ... “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” is one of the best new shows of the year.
Aug 23, 2019
83
Uncle Barky
Dunst is the saving grace throughout a rollicking Season One that keeps delivering whenever she’s on screen. It may well turn out to be the TV performance of the year, with some very able assists from Pellerin, Rodriguez, Ditto and Levine.
Aug 23, 2019
80
Time
A miscast Skarsgard sets the stage for a broad, mean-spirited satire. But once he’s sidelined—in an early twist too insane to spoil—the delightful Central Florida belongs to Dunst.
Aug 22, 2019
80
Boston Globe
Dunst is perfect for the role — believable as a small-town girl, as she was in season two of “Fargo,” but also, as Krystal takes charge of her life, intuitive and driven.
Aug 23, 2019
75
CNN
Distinctive enough to stand out from the premium-TV pack, if not quite rise to the top of the pyramid.
Aug 15, 2019
65
TV Guide
After the initial promise of the early episodes, On Becoming a God in Central Florida loses its way in the second half of its 10-episode season with a struggle to keep things interesting and fresh.
Aug 21, 2019
50
Rolling Stone
At first, On Becoming a God is strange and funny enough to merit a leading turn as good as Dunst’s. ... But the creative team soon runs out of new things to say about FAM, and about most of these characters. There’s some entertaining interplay between Krystal and Cody, and the way she learns to use all of her powers against him. But what you see in the first few episodes is mostly what you get throughout the season.
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Universal Acclaim
8.3
89% Positive
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Aug 27, 2019
10
aceshop3
Ostensibly about a multilevel marketing scheme called FAM, what this show is really about is the American dream, capitalism, and the lies we tell to maintain an air of immense success right around the corner when nothing could be further from the truth. In one of few series about working-class people, Krystal Stubbs (another iconic character from the truly underrated Kirsten Dunst who should have a million Oscar nominations by now) is a water park employee whose life is tragically upended because of her husband (Alexander Skarsgard, darkly hilarious) snarls, hisses, manipulates, and deceives up the ranks of the same pyramid scheme she despises. For anyone who knows Dunst's work well, it's unsurprising how well she plays both the tragic and sad with the dark and hilarious. She's spectacular. Krystal isn't really an "anti-hero" but someone you actually really root for and empathize with. Everything, after all, is for her baby daughter, Destinee. And her relationship with her "upline" superior, Cody (Theodore Pellerin, destined for big things) is twisted and delicious. There's this crazy tone to the series. I've genuinely never seen anything like it. Sure, it's faithful to Florida weirdness but the surreal, weird, dark, and really, really funny is balanced with a tremendous amount of empathy for the working-class characters populating this show. At the end of the day, it's Dunst's show, and she's fearless. Like her, the show doesn't give a crap about looking too ugly or being too weird or vicious or surreal or really, really funny. And it definitely doesn't give two hoots about its brutally satirical takedown of the peculiarly American brand of capitalism.
Oct 14, 2019
9
jimmypowder
hilarious look at scams that are so prevalent in society and their impact on families and individuals . Obie Garbeau ! LMAO.
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