Rate And Review
-
What did you think of this tv season? (optional)
You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket.
What did you think of this tv season? (optional)
How did you buy your ticket?
Episodes
1865. Anna and Emery meet on a voyage to New Zealand, but their plans to reunite are frustrated.
Lydia and Carver hatch a plan to free Carver from his convict past.
Anna's suspicions are aroused as Lydia prepares to host a party. The key to the safe containing Crosbie's gold goes missing, and Lauderback is blackmailed by Carver.
Emery and Anna have a disastrous reunion. In 1866, Anna is losing hope.
A stranger arrives in town and the events of the night Crosbie Wells died are pieced together.
Anna is tried for murder. New evidence reveals a connection between Lauderback and Crosbie Wells.
The Luminaries: Season 1 Videos
Tv Season Info
Cast & Crew
News & Interviews for The Luminaries: Season 1
Critic Reviews for The Luminaries Season 1
All Critics (30) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (11)
In this scattershot adaptation, all you can see is an eclipse of something that's probably quite beautiful when it is full.
The twists and turns of The Luminaries are mild, and despite a textbook-level satisfactory conclusion to these many narrative threads, the emotions never quite come through.
The plot's lack of confidence notwithstanding, for some people Green's presence may provide enough reason to drift along from one beautiful sight to the next, unconcerned as to where it's all leading.
It's remarkable that the miniseries, which distills a novel of more than 800 pages to just six hours of screen time, retains such thematic depth.
The show has a certain rigid clumsiness in taking on complicated source material that does not serve it well. Despite engaging lead performances and attention to visual detail, The Luminaries never lights up.
The Luminaries is worth your time on a lazy Sunday, but maybe not for an exciting Friday night binge.
Supernatural drama has murder, sex work, opium, alcohol.
All told, The Luminaries is a beautifully acted, good-looking, and unfortunately forgettable adventure.
While the show's murder mystery is gussied up with mystical mumbo jumbo and a complicated presentation, these things amount to very little, ultimately resulting in an exasperating and uneven viewing experience.
For its literary heritage and cast alone, the series is definitely worth checking out, but make sure you tape it so you can hit the rewind button often to figure out what the hell is going on.
The three leads, Patel, Hewson and Green, all do good jobs with their roles, but the show just feels like it's going to wander in the wilderness like the delirious Anna before it figures out where to go.
As Peak TV "The Luminaries," which first aired on the BBC in 2020, is gorgeously envisioned.
Audience Reviews for The Luminaries: Season 1
-
Mar 18, 2021The way they jump around in time leads to a disjointed handling of the story. They attempt to make it more of a mystery but end of leaving it feel disjointed.
Verified