56 Days
When an unidentified body is found in a luxury apartment linked to Oliver Kennedy and his girlfriend Ciara Wyse, Detectives Lee Reardon and Karl Connolly reconstruct the couple's deadly romance across the past 56 days. Starring Dove Cameron, Avan Jogia, Karla Souza and Dorian Missick.
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Critics are having a field day with this psychological thriller's tonal whiplash. RogerEbert.com dismisses it as "Mid TV: high production value, mediocrity everywhere else," with writing so dreadful that "each of the eight 48-minute episodes feels like it lasts for hours." But The Irish Times embraces the chaos, calling it "a magnificently campy mix of fever dream and preposterous thriller" and admitting "It's one of the worst things I've ever watched, and I loved it." Pajiba lands squarely in the guilty pleasure camp, praising it as "sexy, thrilling, and mysterious." Audiences seem more forgiving of the show's excesses than professional critics. While one viewer noted "the series was only interesting in the first 4 episodes," others are genuinely invested—one Twitter user gushed "I DIDN'T EXPECT THE PLOT TWIST AND SUPER LOVE IT THE MOST AMAZING." Several praised Dove Cameron's performance and the narrative's time-jumping structure for maintaining tension, with one noting it "watches far better than reviews had me expecting." If you're looking for prestige television, skip this entirely. But if you want something deliriously unhinged to binge on a weekend—complete with beautiful people, ridiculous plot twists, and enough camp to fuel a small bonfire—56 Days delivers exactly that kind of trashy satisfaction.