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His Dark Materials – Season 1, Episode 8 Betrayal

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His Dark Materials – Season 1, Episode 8

Betrayal

Aired Dec 22, 2019

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As the Magisterium closes in, Lyra learns more about Asriel's rebellion, but her assistance to him comes at great personal cost.

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Roxana Hadadi

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01/04/2020

Asriel's and Marisa's daemons embracing in front of the pathway into another world evocatively captured, for the first time all season, the relationships between daemons and people.

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Therese Lacson

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10/09/2021

[Book] readers are bound to have complaints in this adaptation. But [this] version leaves out some clear thematic elements that still leave the show feeling hollow at times

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Gena Radcliffe

The Spool

01/18/2020

A compelling watch that doesn't play it safe or dumbed down with its YA literature audience

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Patrick Crossen

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12/31/2019

The show prides itself on its ability to present a story to us in the most accessible and stylish way possible. It toes the line between arthouse and blockbuster in such a confident fashion you'd think that the show was in its final season.

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Synopsis

As the Magisterium closes in, Lyra learns more about Asriel's rebellion, but her assistance to him comes at great personal cost.

Director: Jamie Childs
Executive Producer: Dan McCulloch, Jane Tranter, Joel Collins, Julie Gardner, Philip Pullman, Jack Thorne, Tom Hooper, Otto Bathurst, Deborah A. Forte, Toby Emmerich, Carolyn Blackwood, Ben Irving, Piers Wenger
Screenwriter: Jack Thorne, Philip Pullman
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Dec 22, 2019