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Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Yes, it’s a lot to unpack. But with the prolific David E. Kelley (“Ally McBeal,” “Big Little Lies,” et al.) as showrunner, writer and executive producer, and directing duties split between actor-filmmaker Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) and Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing,” “The Americans”), each story gets just the right amount of play, and the result is a rich mix of sudsy but spot-on social commentary and satire.
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RogerEbert.comMay 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
At the end of the day, for such a marquee series with a massive star like Daniels, there's little Daniels to actually enjoy. His thick Southern drawl drips with conviction, and it's hard to turn away from his irresistible charisma. Unfortunately, he's a small speck in this wider portrait of Atlanta that, while evergreen, rarely feels all that full in itself.
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May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Kelley replaces what was on the page with little of distinctive note. A Man in Full isn’t big enough, smart enough, funny enough or outlandish enough to bother using the Wolfe title or his character names. Despite an exceptional cast that feels like it would have been game for almost anything Kelley and directors Regina King and Thomas Schlamme asked of them, A Man in Full is a small and flat TV series.
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May 2, 2024The TelegraphMay 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Where Wolfe was adept at exploring societal, political and racial issues with a satirical eye, Kelley doesn’t have the same talents. There are hints of Succession – family troubles, talk of money, Croker yelling about “the Boeing” – but the series is nowhere near the same league.
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May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
A Man in Full has little to say about any facet of America. Instead, it seems Wolfe’s novel was just another piece of IP that could be fed into Netflix’s content-creating machine, churning out something that seems vaguely prestigious, just so long as you don’t look too closely.
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May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The class and racial issues, the knocks at the justice system, and the take on toxic masculinity are all delivered with an obviousness that can be irritating. Also irritating: Daniels’s over-the-top acting, which manifests primarily in his broad, somewhat absurd accent and his forced charisma.
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May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The cast includes Jeff Daniels, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, and William Jackson Harper. Yet the scant six episodes this team delivers feel superficial, disjointed, and ultimately pointless. Tasked with updating a 26-year-old novel that has aged poorly, Kelley pares back so much context and character development that what’s left never resolves into a cohesive story.
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May 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The individual elements of the story aren’t really the problem with A Man in Full. Instead, it’s the challenge of translating Wolfe’s singular style of prose — vivid, elaborate, effusive, ornamental — which thrives on the page but can devolve into cartoonish farce on screen.
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