Last March World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy spoke to a couple of Hamnet viewers, and resultantly posted the term “misery porn.” So Ruimy was first out of the gate with the association of Hamnet and emotional “porn”…six months ago!
On September 2nd, having seen Chloe Zhao‘s historical drama and then spoken to a few fence-sitting Academy members, THR‘s Scott Feinberg mentioned that some Telluriders were calling Hamnet “trauma porn.”
On September 7th, or roughly seven weeks ago, Film Freak Central‘s Walter Chaw reviewed Hamnet, having seen it in Telluride, and given it “ZERO” stars. In the seventh paragraph of his hilarious pan, he echoed Ruimy by calling it “misery porn.”
The very next day, or on September 8th, Daily Beast critic Nick Schager called Hamnet “grief porn.”
And then yesterday (10.30) Jeff Sneider called it “nearly unwatchable…boring, tedious, insufferable.”
So the sequence is Ruimy, Feinberg, Chaw, Schager and then Sneider.
Again, I’m not launching any kind of takedown campaign here. I have no dog in this. I haven’t even seen Hamnet…come on.
