If you like your fashion highfalutin, with occasional forays into silliness, this six-parter is for you.

Full Review | Jun 14, 2024

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld sounds awful but it’s actually quite good.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2024

It plays very much like a soap opera. Having said that, I will say that it benefits from great art direction, costume design and a terrific and very watchable cast.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 11, 2024

If, as viewers, we are looking for a soap opera-like story that dives into the intimate secrets of the designer’s love life (if one can even call it that), then this is the perfect show.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2024

If you want to watch several hours of two designers flinging marble busts and demanding “quails’ eggs”, amid wild disco costumes — and, well, I do — then this is a scream.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2024

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld is almost indecently glamorous (gowns, chateaus, decadence), but also much more than that. It’s about repression, power struggles, decay and painful, terrible love.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2024

We would say that Becoming Karl Lagerfeld would be great if you’re a fan of fashion, but we’re not even sure there’s enough conflict to drive the drama for people who are interested in Lagerfeld’s history.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld feels urgent and alive -- like a present day story that happens to be set in the past.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

For those who know nothing about this world of high-fashion and designer rivalries, it’s an accessible introduction, and you don’t need to know much beyond their names to take in all the gorgeous gowns and keep up with the acerbic wit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

What Becoming Karl Lagerfeld has in lieu of a more candid take on its protagonist’s flaws is immersive eye candy and targeted concision... It simply wants to do its job and move on.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

The relationship is never consummated, which is as frustrating for the viewer as it is for the parties involved, because Lagerfeld is clearly in love and the reasons for his self-imposed loneliness are not adequately explained.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2024

Being Karl Lagerfeld is plenty curious about the German designer’s life... But it never captures the essence of who he was or the world he lived in — or what any of that means for a viewer in 2024.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

This is a ­serialised portrait of pain, longing and ­decadence that humanises the man behind the the scowl.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024

It looks fabulous. It’s heady, decadent, bitchy, envy-laden, high society, competitive high-stakes hijinks with killer outfits and lashings of Diana Ross on the soundtrack. Frankly who wants anything else from a fashion drama?

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2024

Pick a lane: make him sympathetic and tell me where all of his insecurities come from. Or make him truly wicked and vengeful. Don’t tell me things in a pretty French accent and then not deliver the goods.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10 | May 28, 2024

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld might have the glossy patina of a Disney-backed series, but thanks to its humanity, heart, and grittiness, it doesn’t feel like a series pieced together in the present.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 28, 2024