Netflix: 'Fool Me Once' Is Getting Mixed Reviews From Critics

Despite mixed reviews, Netflix’s new series Fool Me Once has been embraced by viewers.

Joanna Lumley, Richard Armitage, Adeel Akhtar, Emmett J. Scanlan, and Michelle Keegan star in the eight-part television adaptation, which was adapted from the 2016 Harlan Coben novel of the same name.

In its debut on New Year’s Day, show received negative reviews from many critics, including Sams Shahid, who gave it two stars.

The Show convoluted and implausible nature is difficult to overstate, he wrote. The ability to tolerate Fool Me Once depends entirely on turning off your brain and let the proceedings wash over you. Melodramatic dialogue that swings between extremes of emotion further inhibits the plot, which is not worth following.”

The show is not for watching with your full attention. Watch it while you think about inflation, or while improving your cooking skills in the kitchen. TV shocks you – not because its plot is shocking, but because it’s still on.”

FOOL ME ONCE Social Media Reviews:

Fans have nonetheless given the series enthusiastic reviews on social media.

X/Twitter user commented, “Started watching Fool Me Once on Netflix. 20 minutes in and I’m hooked.”.

A viewer commented, “I’m absolutely loving FOOL ME ONCE on Netflix…The cast is great and Michelle Keegan is BRILLIANT as always.”.

Someone else wrote, “Fooled me once on Netflix. Just dropped today. Brilliant. Already on episode 3….. based on Harlan Coben’s novel.”

The Netflix show is really good, according to a fourth commenter, while someone else expressed: “Fool Me Once is the perfect sofa TV for New Year’s Day. We’re already up to episode three.”

In the first episode of the series, Maya (Keegan) is left reeling after watching Joe (Armitage) breaking into her house and witnessing his murder.

Now you can watch Fool Me Once on Netflix.