Pieces of Her (2022) User Reviews

It's ok thanks to Toni Colette

[Vindelander · 6/10 · 6 March 2022]

Far too long for the content which makes it drag in places. I found the hopping around in time periods very frustrating and rather confusing which would be even worse if not watched in a pretty short timeframe ( in my case over 2 days).

Had it not been for Toni Colette I wouldn't have watched it to start with. But even though she's such a powerful actress it was still rather a disappointment but by no means as bad as the numerous 1 and 2 score ratings that some have given it imo.

Watchable.

[vus29 · 5/10 · 5 March 2022]

Thank goodness, I had insomnia. The plot is frustrating, andvthe storyline does get lazy and lethargic. Every character is flawed so after a few episodes you stop rooting for anyone and just watch. If you got the time and a few hours to kill.......it is okay! Not memorable but it is very watchable.

This girl

[staciarose20 · 5/10 · 5 March 2022]

Never listens!!! She's 30 and acts like a teenager who runs on their emotions. Damn. It gets so annoying! Toni Collette does her part. The other actors are eh.

Pieces of... stupid

[thedrisdelles · 6/10 · 7 March 2022]

I love Toni in almost everything but what the heck was this? It was literally a show on what not to do The daughter was the most unintelligent, bumbling idiot that I couldn't keep watching this because of her chsarqcter. Was this writing intended to make fun of a millennial and portray them as morons? If so, then it succeeded!

Not bad but...

[asterblasterth · 7/10 · 4 March 2022]

....the daughter is annoying as fudge. I mean why don't you go around with a red flashing light on your head and a sign on your back which says 'I am the girl you're looking for' that would be less conspicuous than how she's moving around.

For the most part it isn't bad.... I think. I mean the daughter character annoyed me so much that I think the rest was okay.

Holy carp!

[WeWatchMovies · 6 March 2022]

Alright into the second episode I knew I couldn't handle how freaking annoying the loser daughter is...I can't stand how immature and dumble-ing bumbling fumbling and mentally weak she is, it's too much. Unfortunately my husband wanted to keep watching. So here we sit with me smh every 2 seconds at her ineptitude and having a hard time paying attention to anything else that is happening, even Toni Collette and Gil Birmingham aren't helping me stay interested.

I thought this would be one where I might read the book because maybe it was just Netflix that made this that bad, but then read a few other reviews that said the daughter was just as annoying in the book, sooooo that's that.

Good but flawed - depends how much you can stand the main characters

[ChungMo · 6/10 · 15 March 2022]

Is this series finished? Hard to tell from the last episode but it does wrap up the main story line.

There's a good, slow reveal mystery here based around flashbacks to a time in the United States in the 1980's not covered much these days. It also revolves around abusive and manipulative men psychologically tormenting women much like your average Lifetime movie but it's better than one of those.

The main problem with this series is that the character we follow isn't the tormented personality played by Toni Collette but her daughter as we follow her frantic path of discovery about her mom's mysterious past. Unfortunately the daughter isn't given enough sympathetic characteristics to elevate her above a 30 year old screw-up. She's initially portrayed as helpless but suddenly becomes a pro at evading professional security goons out to get her. Since, unlike all the other main characters, we are given almost nothing about her (except that she's a drawing artist), it's very hard to follow and care. And the other characters are for the most part flawed people.

Toni Collette

[mbazhome · 5/10 · 23 March 2022]

I'm a fan of Ms Collette, unfortunately there's not enough of her in this. The actress who plays her younger self is dead in the eyes. Sorry that's mean. She was great in The End Of The *** World but here she really bugged me. Also unfortunate is the reveal of why the double life. Pretty unbelievable. Once again the first couple of episodes are best.

A bit Misleading to be honest

[saratonkinson · 8/10 · 6 March 2022]

Good but expected more, at the beginning the main character (Tony Collete) leads you to think she is something more, turns out she isn't at all. Good drama but why have the excitement at first if you aren't going to do owt with it?

Worst Possible Choice for Young Toni Collette

[budaire · 6/10 · 8 March 2022]

It was really disappointing to see in how many ways the young version does not resemble to the main character. The voice of the girl from the flashbacks is absolutely nothing like Toni Collette's, not to mention their face (the young girl has a super round face structure which just cannot change that much while growing up). This was a big missed opportunity which was irritating the whole way along the series. Sometimes I even forgot who the young girl is. Seemed like a totally different character and was hard to connect to the story in the present.

All in all, I liked the storyline but the only good actor for me was the mother. The first episode convinced me to start watching but it became harder and harder to continue.

Jesus suffering christ

[justsayleo · 4/10 · 7 March 2022]

My god it is like pulling teeth or getting blood from a stone. There are 1.5 likeable characters out of 20 or so. Pointless dialogue ruins poignant moments. Depressing, stiff, irrelevant tripe and yet I watched it to the end. I've only got myself to blame.

A great mystery

[nancyldraper · 8/10 · 9 March 2022]

There is so much to like about this series. The slow reveal of who Laura Oliver is and what actually happened to make this woman a mystery to her daughter. A stellar Australian cast performing in flawless American accents. North Sydney pinch hitting for South Carolina. This was a great mystery, well told with excellent performances. I give this series an 8 (great) out of 10. {Crime Mystery}

Good, except for...

[kkmgirl-448-111988 · 7/10 · 5 March 2022]

The daughter. Ugh. Without Toni Collette, I would have checked out early on because of the supremely annoying "30 year old" taking up valuable oxygen and screen time. I'm so sick of entitled brats thinking the world revolves around them and their delicate feelings. "Oooh poor me- I grew up in a loving family in a safe community next to the beach... how dare you Mom!" SMH first world problems. My mother would have slapped the snot out of me at 30 if I acted like that- my mother's life and choices before I was born are HER business and she can damn well tell me about it or not. Granted, if Mom had started communicating more at the beginning when danger was lurking, the producers couldn't have squeezed out 8 overlong episodes. But OBVIOUSLY the "adult" child can't handle anything remotely responsible so why bother? Could have been a better story without following around the idiotic daughter as much... plus her horrible hair was distracting. I think the show would have had more impact by trimming the fat and cleaning up the storyline. And casting- Young Jane is like 6 inches shorter than her older self. It's weird. I think the actress might be good in something else, but I didn't enjoy her portrayal in this... she just didn't give me a Collette vibe. And a lot of insinuation (or red herrings?) thrown in but don't go anywhere, so I can't tell if that's to imply a second season. I say don't bother- Charlie's gone and I never want to see daughter ever again. Ever.

Loses steam early on. Bella Heathcote turns in horrible performance.

[msghall · 5/10 · 9 March 2022]

I'm a big fan of Toni Collette but she's in a dog of a series with this one. Collette's a natural actor with a wonderful range. The same can't be said for her costar Heathcote who acts her character instead of inhabiting it. The limp script doesn't give her much help.

It's worrying that Netflix keeps raising its prices while its offerings keep getting more amateur with each day. The collective writing, acting and direction has taken a deep dive the last few years. This series is just another example of the slide, hoping that casual viewers will not be able to discriminate bad shows from good ones.

More of Family Drama less of thriller

[mohinderchugh · 4 March 2022]

Pieces of Her is more of a Family Drama mainly related to relation between mother and daughter less of thriller. Toni Collette gives a very good performance as a woman who wants her past to remain hidden. There are better thrillers and mysteries on Netflix and other OTT Platforms. In case you are a thriller fan and you have watched all other thrillers and mystery movies and series you can give it a try otherwise avoid.

The world didn't start when you were born.

[aarpcats · 7/10 · 4 March 2022]

How many times have you seen the Netflix thriller where an unassuming mom jumps out of the drop off line at school to protect Madison or Dakota from mysterious harm with some previously unseen karate skills? They are usually Wifetimish mysteries where the action is split between mom beating people up, and mom gazing at some symbol (a wedding dress or a baby picture) that symbolizes the life she had before she had to activate her secret super skills. One trope follows another until mom has vanquished her opponents and can go back to being regular mom.

Those series are dull, predictable and repetitive. This series is not.

From the first episode, the explodes into action. As soon as Toni Collette appears on the screen, she takes charge of the episode and moves the audience to the place the director wants us to be. We know her character is someone special, and we want to find out who she is as much as her daughter does.

Unfortunately, Toni isn't in every scene and the series lags when she is missing. It's a fun weekend binge, but it isn't earthshaking. Invest in some popcorn, pizza and settle in to chill. You'll enjoy it.

You won't regret.

Miscast, messy, slow

[Ioreka · 6/10 · 11 August 2022]

Quite an engaging story but the pacing is too slow in the flashbacks and the young Jane is credible neither as Toni Collette's character's younger self nor as a concert pianist. The acting is surprisingly uninspiring from all but Toni Collette and some of the dialogue is just poor. The daughter does a very good line in 'anxious'.

not an easy watch

[ubasarsahin · 6/10 · 10 March 2022]

I decided to drop off many times but as I continued , I continued and finished it. I don't think it's a series that I will ever remember. The dram was so far away from being unique and story-telling actually felt boring. It was not interesting at all. Toni Collette is of course so good , her acting is priceless and she is so talented but it was not easy to save the show.

Toni Collette cannot save this.

[JSC-2 · 5/10 · 7 March 2022]

Toni Collette plays Laura Oliver, a woman with secrets, which are exposed during a life and death situation beyond her control.

This 90 minute story has been stretched over 8 episodes, requiring long pauses, unnecessary diversions and constant illogical behaviour by the main characters. As others have written, the worst character is the daughter (played by Heathcote) who whines a lot and seems to have a permanent state of confusion etched upon her face. Other characters are thinly written; the dialogue is poor and the pacing is glacial. The whole thing is just disappointing.

As a side note, this is another example of a Netflix production where the shooting location (Sydney, Australia) looks nothing like the setting of the story (Georgia, USA). Everything from the streetscapes, the flora, the lighting - all is wrong and it's distracting. Many shows are shot in different locations than the story's setting, but surely there needs to be a mild resemblance to the actual.

Okay!

[macbell2012 · 8/10 · 8 March 2022]

Would have given it a higher rating but the millennial/Gen X daughter was so irritating and dumb it just made me drink more.

One other thing, it states it was filmed in Australia, hard to believe.

a disappointment

[blanche-2 · 6/10 · 10 May 2022]

I love Toni Colette, and the first part of this series leads one to expect a lot more.

Alas, the story goes on too long. By the final twist you're just glad it's over - at last.

Most aggravating is that the end leaves things up in the air, perhaps for another miniseries.

Bella Heathcote gives a good performance as Colette's long-suffering daughter. The little girl who plays her as a child is gorgeous.

This could have been done in two hours.

A mystery why?

[nick-615-60770 · 4/10 · 14 March 2022]

This enough material for 4 episodes only

This starts off as a cracking mystery and over the series slowly descends into a kitchen sink drama.

The mystery is how this got made in this form

There is so much flicking backwards in time that I was never entirely sure who was who. One character dying in a hospital of cancer I still have no idea who it was or why she was there.

The younger versions of the main characters looked nothing like the older versions.

All this may seem nit picking but it is soo drawn out, so messy, so secretive that in the end it isn't anything. Do not expect the loose ends to be neatly tied up either.

What a mess.

Worth watching

[sue-06239 · 8/10 · 13 March 2022]

I enjoyed this but it really irritates me when you have two actresses playing the same person at different life stages and they look absolutely nothing like each other!

Tonight Collette is a very distinctive looking woman and the younger actress cast as her in the past had a totally different face shape and look. People age but still retain their face and features!

The Downside of Witness Protection...

[gpierpoint · 7/10 · 20 April 2022]

Took me till episode 5 to get my head around this. Once I started understanding what and who is now and.... what and who was then... I started enjoying it more.

A lot of harsh things have been said about the actress playing Andy but I thought she did a good job as did Toni Colette and the supporting actors.

The drama was there, the shock moments were there and there were a few nice twists.

Worth watching. Just a little patience required.

Daughter ruins any possibility of a good story

[Zedyeti · 1/10 · 12 March 2022]

Common theme with the worst Netflix series is an amazing first episode that sucks you in, followed by crap that makes you regret any investment. Toni Collette is an amazing actress and she is the only good thing going in this series. Too bad the daughter is suppose to be 30 and acts like a annoying teenager and does not listen to anyone. It became too much that in abandoned the series 4 episodes in. Judging by these other comments I didn't miss much.