The Duchess: Season 1

"There's some inspired crude in here, to be sure, but you have to bust through a lot of gravelly stupidity to get to it."

"There's a lot to like in The Duchess, not least the furious flow of jokes and unapologetic tone of it all (and of Katherine in particular)... [but] Katherine herself too often steps across the line from bitch to simple sociopath."

"There are fleeting glimpses of a War of the Roses-style divorce farce or a sweet mother-and-daughter comedy, albeit one with a less dysfunctional dynamic. Instead what we're left is a loud, mildly amusing mess."

"At its worst, The Duchess is a disastrous Catastrophe copycat. At its best, it's a deranged mother-daughter love story. But nothing can erase the stink lines radiating off this alleyway dumpster."

"A tasteless misfire... It's furthermore painful to watch stupid behavior, and stupid writing, treated by its creator as subversively intelligent."