Lily Gladstone's New TV Show With 81% On Rotten Tomatoes Is Her Third Lowest Score In 11 Years

Summary Lily Gladstone's new Hulu miniseries, Under the Bridge, is based on the true story of 14-year-old Reena Virk's murder.

Under the Bridge is Lily Gladstone's third-lowest-rated project on Rotten Tomatoes at 81%, highlighting their exceptional track record in their 11-year acting career.

Lily Gladstone's overwhelmingly high average ratings present a greater challenge for any future projects to meet in order to land among her best scores.

This article contains spoilers for Under the Bridge (2024) and mention of murder.Even though Lily Gladstone's new TV show Under The Bridge has a perfectly respectable score of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, it's still the third-lowest score of her 11-year acting career. Developed by Quinn Shephard, Under the Bridge tells the true story of the murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old girl who was killed by her peers in 1997. The true crime Hulu miniseries is based on the 2005 book of the same name by Rebecca Godfrey (played by Riley Keough), a writer who got wrapped up in the investigation of Virk's murder.

The cast of Under the Bridge also includes newcomer Vritika Gupta as Virk and Gladstone as Cam Betland, a fictional character written for the show who is the only officer of color in the Victoria police department. Since the release of the first two of eight episodes of the miniseries on April 17, 2024, the reviews for Under the Bridge have been generally positive. However, despite its critical acclaim, Under the Bridge still pails in comparison to most of Gladstone's past roles in this respect.

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Under the Bridge episodes 1 and 2 are available to stream on Hulu.

Related Under The Bridge Soundtrack Guide: Every Song & When They Play Under the Bridge's soundtrack includes a number of hip-hop and rap songs that help define the characters and shape the plot of the Hulu miniseries.

Under The Bridge's 81% Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Lily Gladstone's Third-Lowest Rating

Two-Thirds Of Lily Gladstone's Rotten Tomatoes Scores Are 90% & Above

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As Lily Gladstone's follow-up to Killers of the Flower Moon, which earned them their first Oscar nomination, Under the Bridge is far from a disappointment. An 81% critics score is an objectively good rating for any project, but not in the context of Gladstone's unbelievably impressive 11-year track record. Among her movies and TV shows on Rotten Tomatoes, Under the Bridge is rated third from the bottom of Gladstone's catalog. The only projects starring Gladstone with lower scores on the Tomatometer are 2013's Winter in the Blood with 67% and 2022's The Last Manhunt with an abysmal 18%.

Two-thirds of Gladstone's filmography is 90% and above, including two TV shows with 99% and two movies with 100%.

Though Gladstone has a few projects with audience scores in the 50s, The Last Manhunt is her only "Rotten" movie on the Tomatometer. This singular "Rotten" score would be shockingly low for most esteemed actors, but it's even more so for Gladstone, given that it's in such stark contrast to even their next lowest score of 67%. None of her other projects even come close to 18%; in fact, two-thirds of Gladstone's filmography is above 90%, including two TV shows with 99% and two movies with 100%.

Lily Gladstone's Rotten Tomatoes Scores Title Year(s) Type Role Critics Score Audience Score Winter in the Blood 2013 Movie Marlene 67% 73% Certain Women 2016 Movie The Rancher 92% 51% Walking Out 2017 Movie Lila 90% 56% Room 104 2017-2020 TV Show 911 Operator (Season 1) Abby (Season 4) 88% 55% First Cow 2019 Movie Chief Factor's Wife 96% 65% Billions 2019-2023 TV Show Roxanne 87% 67% Freeland 2020 Movie Mara 100% 62% Tuca & Bertie 2021 TV Show Hawk Mechanic 99% 83% The Last Manhunt 2022 Movie Maria 18% 86% The Unknown Country 2022 Movie Tana 92% 79% Quantum Cowboys 2022 Movie Linde 100% 93% Reservation Dogs 2022-2023 TV Show Hokti 99% 91% Fancy Dance 2023 Movie Jax 97% N/A Killers of the Flower Moon 2023 Movie Mollie Burkhart 93% 84% Under the Bridge 2024 TV Show Cam Bentland 81% 86%

4:23 Related Lily Gladstone Passionately Explains How Indigenous Identity Adds Layers To Under The Bridge Under The Bridge stars Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough discuss their research for Hulu's true crime drama and how indigenous identity plays a role.

Lily Gladstone's Movies & TV Shows Have Set Such An Absurdly High Standard For Her Future Roles

Anything Below 90% Will Rank Toward The Bottom Of Gladstone's Filmography On Rotten Tomatoes

It's remarkable that Gladstone has such a highly-rated catalog that a score in the 80s is among their worst, but it also puts a lot more pressure on her. If a critically acclaimed series like Under the Bridge with 81% still lands in the bottom three of her filmography, any future projects of Gladstone's will have to meet a ridiculously high standard just to avoid this same fate. In order to even break into the top 50% of her scores, Gladstone's next movie or TV show would have to rate above 92%, which is a tall order for any project.

Scores that would be cause for celebration for even some of the most acclaimed and prolific actors fall short in comparison to Gladstone's other projects because of the precedent her previous work has set.

Ultimately, Gladstone's Rotten Tomatoes success is a blessing and a curse: having such a highly-rated filmography across the board is praiseworthy, but it also creates a disproportionately higher average score to achieve than someone with more evenly distributed scores. Scores that would be cause for celebration for even some of the most acclaimed and prolific actors fall short in comparison to Gladstone's other projects because of the precedent her previous work has set.