Howards End Reviews - Metacritic (original) (raw)
SummaryKenneth Lonergan's adaptation of the classic E.M. Forster novel about sisters Margaret (Hayley Atwell) and Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) as they seek love and purpose in turn of the century England. [Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 12 Nov 2017; in the US on Starz on 8 Apr 2018 and as a part of PBS's Masterpiece on 12 Jan 202... Read More
Season 1 Premiere:
Nov 12, 2017
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Apr 9, 2018
Kenneth Lonergan’s four-part miniseries, which arrives Sunday on Starz, is its own masterpiece, visually lavish and narratively restrained. Lonergan and the director Hettie Macdonald find something profound in the story’s clash of cultures between the liberal, bourgeois Schlegels and the emotionally repressed, establishment Wilcoxes that feels vital in this particular moment.
Apr 5, 2018
Howards End is fun. It’s lean. It illustrates from the get-go that the Oscar-winning writer behind one of the biggest cinematic downers in recent memory (“Manchester By the Sea”) can write “heartwarming” as well as he writes “heart-wrenching.” But it also shows that he understands fundamental principles essential to the original story and its modern telling.
Apr 6, 2018
Lonergan's gift for empathizing with characters while clearly seeing their flaws fills every scene with rich, unsentimental emotion. Lonergan's work is matched by director Hettie MacDonald, who, rather than leaning on handsome production design and costumes, makes the material feel immediate, and the characters' choices full of risk. ... The cast more than rises to the occasion.
Mar 29, 2018
A literate and visually sumptuous feast. [2 Apr - 15 Apr 2018, p.10]
Mar 30, 2018
Though Howards End (premiering April 8 at 8 p.m. on Starz) doesn’t have the ardor of the network’s Outlander, fans of that time-traveling romance may still find themselves swooning at the gracefully restrained emotion between Meg and stuffy Mr. Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen).
Apr 16, 2018
Dissecting people--and classes, and ideas--is all that Howards End is interested in. It does so beautifully, with intellectual precision and an able and charismatic cast, but also with a clinical, not-quite-ironic distance. It’s an easy story to enjoy and admire, and a very difficult story to love wholeheartedly.
Apr 4, 2018
A beauty to behold but an ice cube to hold, this Howards End never quite thaws.
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23% Mixed
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12 Ratings
Apr 3, 2021
Possibly better than the Merchant/Ivory film, but if so it might have to do w/ the 4-episode format which is (obviously) longer. The entire cast was a revelation, for me (but a quibble is that Margaret and Helen resemble one another.) Visually exquisite, brilliant dialog and perfectly paced direction. Likely to be remembered as a preeminent mini-series adaptation.
Production Company:
- Playground Entertainment
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Starz Originals
- KippSter Entertainment
- City Entertainment
Initial Release Date:Nov 12, 2017
Number of seasons:1 Season
Rating:TV-14
Monte-Carlo TV Festival
• 3 Nominations
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 2 Nominations
Women's Image Network Awards
• 2 Nominations