❮ The Widow
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Feb 28, 2019
Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
User score
Mixed or Average
5.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Mar 1, 2019
75
Affecting performances keep the series from going off the rails. Beckinsale again proves a compelling leading lady, capable of measured emotion without becoming overly maudlin even while wielding a machine gun and evading bad guys. Charles Dance and Alex Kingston imbue their characters with irascible humanity, and newcomer Shalom Nyandiko gives a beautiful and natural performance as young Adidja, a young Congolese girl forced to join a militia.
Feb 22, 2019
75
Beckinsale brings a stylish ferocity to the role of Georgia. ... The Widow, skillfully written by Harry and Jack Williams, doles out its clues on a need-to-know basis.
Feb 28, 2019
70
It’s a compelling puzzle, a potato-chip show — as soon as you finish one episode, you reach for another. ... If it is too busy and multifarious to be classed as a “white savior” movie — see the recent controversy over the Oscar-winning “The Green Book” — it certainly has elements of one. You will or will not find it distracting.
Feb 26, 2019
67
The Widow is a series that requires patience to appreciate. After the first two episodes, there wasn’t much to get excited about. But once the dots started connecting in episode three, I was intrigued.
Jan 7, 2020
60
It had an intriguing, if mad, plot, huge ambitions spanning three countries and complex strands including Congolese child soldiers. Unfortunately, the dialogue hadn't quite got the memo. For such a vaulting project, some of it was comically corny.
Feb 28, 2019
60
[Georgia's] quest is often compelling, but I found myself much more captivated by the traumatic journey of Adidja, kidnapped from a village and recruited as a child soldier, exposed to violence too early. [4-17 Mar 2019, p.10]
User score
Mixed or Average
5.4
35% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
41% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
24% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
May 16, 2019
6
A good show that is well acted, the story did not feel like it could have been real.
Mar 19, 2019
2
So much squandered potential. Kate Beckinsale. Every guys' celebrity crush and the only reason this rates 2-stars, and she's not even that good in this. The pacing is so slow in this weak mystery that you will age out before it's over. I turned grey just getting through the first ep! This series plays like those B-series/movies from the early 90s. It's just so lackluster in every aspect. Nothing, nothing has redeeming value here. The overall setting is the Democratic Republic of the Congo as you're constantly reminded and can you think of a worse setting in Africa?! Do you want to sit through 8 1-hr episodes staring at the filth and poverty of this landscape?! And Kate's character and the guy she runs around with must have all the time and money in the world to pursue the mystery and there's absolutely no conflict evident, no deadlines, no dwindling resources, no random violence against them, no setbacks. This is all evidence of someone who failed Plots 103 in film school. Just a fail of a series all around.
