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Freeman makes the most of the Lion’s scene-stealing silliness, reveling in the skittish big cat’s foppish hamminess.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

The performances overall hit a note of bland competence — there’s neither the entertaining hamminess nor the startling ineptitude that you often got in “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022

Brühl's Kreizler feels even stiffer, to the point of making Ted Levine's still-crooked Thomas Byrnes, the former police chief, achieve Snidely Whiplash levels of hamminess.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2020

Comer makes such florid narcissism wildly funny, her performance best representing the show’s mischievous hamminess.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2019

With a lush wooded set and fetching costumes, it’s an impressive showpiece of the company — its animation and utterly right, go-for-it hamminess.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2017