Fifty Shades Freed (film) approval rating of 11%, based on 167 reviews, and an average rating of 3.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Fifty Shades Freed" brings its titillating trilogy to a clumsy conclusion, making for a film franchise that adds up to a distinctly dissatisfying "ménage à trois"." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 43 critics, meaning "generally unfavorable reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by "Darker", while PostTrak reported that 56% of females (who made
Andrew Shaffer one of the most prominent examples of the 'Great Depression chic' trend in 2009. Shaffer wrote "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey" under the pen name "Fanny Merkin." "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey" is a parody of E. L. James' popular trilogy, "Fifty Shades of Grey". Publishers Weekly suggested "The parody brings to life all of the arguments for and against 50 Shades, including the feminist concerns, portrayal of BDSM, roots in Twilight fan-fiction, and EL James's writing style." "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey" was a Goodreads choice 2012 semi-finalist. In 2015, Shaffer's tie-in book to the Syfy channel's Sharknado series