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Peacock Original Shows and Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
Updated January 3, 2022
Following an early launch for Xfinity subscribers, NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service launched across the U.S. in July 2020 with more than 20,000 hours of premium content from networks and studios including NBC, Bravo, USA Network, SYFY, Oxygen, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, NBCSN, Golf Channel, Universal Kids, A&E, ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, HISTORY, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Illumination, ViacomCBS, Paramount, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Blumhouse. (See a list of titles.)
The service offers free, ad-supported access to most content, but its premium-tier subscription includes Peacock Originals series and movies, big stars, and animated fun. The launch featured: Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), and Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones) in sci-fi series Brave New World, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel; Holliday Grainger and Callum Turner in the Certified Fresh first season of espionage thriller The Capture; a Psych reunion with James Roday Rodriguez and Dulé Hill in Psych 2: Lassie Come Home; and animated series Curious George, Where’s Waldo?, and Cleopatra In Space.
Since then, Peacock has added a slew of acquired and International programming, as well as more home-grown original series like the 100% Certified Fresh British import We Are Lady Parts, well-reviewed Tina Fey-produced comedy Girls5eva, the single-camera Saved By the Bell revival/reboot and the well-reviewed first season of sitcom Rutherford Falls. The latest Fresh hit? The Certified Fresh podcast adaptation, Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, and Christian Slater.
Which shows and movies have earned their spot among the best Peacock offerings so far? While the service is still in its early stages, there are plenty of original shows and movies available — they just don’t all have scores yet. We’ve ranked the ones that do have scores below.
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#26
Adjusted Score: 50839%
Critics Consensus: Halloween Kills should satisfy fans in search of brute slasher thrills, but in terms of advancing the franchise, it's a bit less than the sum of its bloody parts.
Synopsis: Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster...
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Synopsis: Somewhere between MI5, MI6 and the malfunctioning third-floor printer at the U.K.'s labyrinthine Government Communications Headquarters, an arrogant, maverick NSA...
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Synopsis: In an idyllic utopia whose peace and stability hinge upon control of monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself, everyone...
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Synopsis: On the outskirts of outer space 124 years into the future, Ash Harper, a fearless young cop and galactic pilot,...
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Synopsis: A young Harvard symbologist must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling...
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Synopsis: Punky is a single mother of three trying to get her life back on track when she meets a young...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 70936%
Critics Consensus: Its intentions are sometimes easier to appreciate than its execution, but The Public remains an earnest and reasonably engaging social advocacy drama.
Synopsis: An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public...
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Synopsis: Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor are star-crossed lovers at the intersection of the Black ruling class and the white underclass...
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Synopsis: Best friends and misfits Fran and Jamie are making their way in the world with only each other to rely...
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Synopsis: When Flight 716 disappears over the Atlantic Ocean, Kendra Malley of the TSIB is selected to lead the team investigating...
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Synopsis: Detective Inspectors Major and Carver are the top crime-fighting duo at the Met Police's Special Investigation Unit until Major is...
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#15
Adjusted Score: 40957%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Marking 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, "Black Boys" illuminates the full spectrum of Black male humanity in...
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Synopsis: It's 1972 and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" is in the midst of its three-decade run sitting atop the...
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#13
Adjusted Score: 75178%
Critics Consensus: Satisfyingly self-contained while refreshingly opening up new directions for the Psych team, Lassie Come Home delivers the crowd-pleasing goods with the skill of a mind reader.
Synopsis: After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton "Lassie" Lassiter is ambushed on the job and left for dead, he begins to...
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Synopsis: "One of Us Is Lying" is based on Karen M. McManus' New York Times best-selling novel of the same name....
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Synopsis: When California Gov. Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many high schools in low-income areas, he suggests...
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Synopsis: Based on a hit podcast and inspired by the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a young and charismatic...
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Synopsis: When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to...
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Synopsis: Two lifelong best friends, Nathan Rutherford and Reagan Wells, find themselves at a crossroads -- quite literally -- when their...
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Adjusted Score: 103609%
Critics Consensus: Smart, funny, and just nostalgic enough, Girls5eva's intelligent insights are brought to brilliant life by its talented quartet, whose individual gifts come together to make sweet comedic harmony.
Synopsis: The story of one of the most notorious serial killers told through the words of Gacy himself....
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Synopsis: A signature smart-and-silly take on the week....
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#4
Adjusted Score: 74838%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In July 2005, Black teenager Anthony Walker is murdered at just 18 years of age by two white men in...
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#3
Adjusted Score: 100157%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Mary Mazzio chronicles the first African American high-school rowing team from the West Side of Chicago....
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Synopsis: The disappearance of his estranged daughter Jody leads Nelson "Nelly" Rowe, a London womanizer, down a dangerous path; along the...
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Synopsis: Geeky biochemical engineering Ph.D. student Amina Hussein becomes the unlikely lead guitarist of Lady Parts, an all-female Muslim punk band...
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