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- 2015
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- Starz
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
Summary The eight-episode drama series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a ballerina with a troubled past as she joins a prestigious New York's ballet and faces a volatile artistic director (Ben Daniels) and her own past.
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2015
- TV-MA
- Starz
Flesh and Bone
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 2, 2015
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6.4
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Summary The eight-episode drama series follows Claire (Sarah Hay), a ballerina with a troubled past as she joins a prestigious New York's ballet and faces a volatile artistic director (Ben Daniels) and her own past.
Created By: Moira Walley-Beckett
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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32% Positive
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47% Mixed
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21% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
52
32% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
21% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The show is too thoughtful to be dismissed as kitschy fun.
It’s intriguing for its setting and some of its stories--although the fine arts world in New York does call to mind the lighter “Mozart in the Jungle” on Amazon--and yet at the same time it’s often predictable in its premium cable-style plotting and pretentiousness, which is where the irritation comes in.... And yet, Flesh and Bone proved highly addictive, encouraging a binge of all its episodes in just a few days.
The best parts of the eight-part limited series are when everyone's on their toes.... Too bad that whenever Flesh and Bone shifts focus from dance, it risks becoming flat-footed. [9-22 Nov 2015, p.12]
For conveying such a rich sense of authenticity alone, for showing us the physical rigors facing those whose goal is to challenge gravity, Flesh and Bone deserves praise. The actors playing dancers are all professional dancers, too, so that the practice scenes are lovely and don’t require much dodgy camerawork. The storytelling, alas, leaves something to be desired.
If the show had demonstrated more confidence in ballet’s ability to transfix audiences and ditched all the rib-sticking melodrama (at an extremely padded 60 minutes, every single episode drags), it could have been something really special.
Walley-Beckett could have easily told a much simpler tale with greater effect--it's not as if ballet drama is such a crowded field that a writer needs a new twist. Instead, she weighs down the real drama with clichés, lurid B plot and lots of absurd nudity.
Flesh and Bone is, from the very start, pretty obviously a bad television show, a pretentiously somber affair punctuated by bursts of camp.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 60 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
12% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Bender Brown Productions
- Pelican Ballet
- Starz Originals
Initial Release Date: Nov 2, 2015
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
