Dangerous Liaisons: Season 1

"Park your brain at the door and enjoy the ride."

"For a show that relishes in the odd bit of historical boinking, the rest of it feels disappointingly flaccid."

"Perhaps Gossip Girl: 1783 might have been a better title."

"Everything about this series is colourful, emotionally messy, and turned up to eleven..."

"What we appreciated is the unambiguous way this first episode lays out the story."

"Harriet Warner has wittily crafted a tricksy new labyrinth for Laclos’s characters to navigate."

"The tone grows a bit exhausting; the show lacks the control or unified sense of its world of, say, the new Gossip Girl..."

"A hollow confection."

"Stepping into a role made famous by Glenn Close... is far from easy, and Alice Englert rises to the occasion as Camille."

"There’s a pallid quality to this rendition, less in the steaminess of the situations than the prolonged way they’re structured..."