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Positive:
11
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
May 23, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Adults, at its core, aims to reflect the dilemmas and joys of modern-day youth, which means this celebration of friendship is a little inherently cringeworthy. And yet, the underlying humor and heart pop up as the show presses on, making it one of the more promising irreverent sitcoms on TV right now.
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Sep 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Adults” is lots of fun and the shenanigans are entertaining to watch (like Paul Baker inviting Julia Fox to his household’s first dinner party), but it’s the subtle emergence of deeper character development that could eventually let it compete with the greats over hopefully what will be many more seasons.
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RogerEbert.comMay 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
There’s a saying that a comedy is only as good as its weakest player, and there really isn’t one here. Even with the inherent growing pains in a comedy about people figuring out who they are, it feels like the sometimes-mediocre writing will rise to meet the talent of the cast. It’s gonna be fun to watch this one grow up.
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May 23, 2025
May 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The show’s strengths lie less in “Girls”-esque verisimilitude than in ridiculous sitcom setups. “Adults” is frank about sex and drugs, but it is best when it is just straight-up zany. While it seems unlikely to become a generation-defining sensation, once “Adults” finds its groove, it is perfectly diverting TV.
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May 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The characters can be annoying in a way that is supposed to be funny and often is but is sometimes just annoying. (“I always thought the world was going to be waiting for me and instead everyone’s annoyed that I’m here,” says Samir, not wrong.) Things improve over the six (of eight) episodes out for review, however, providing more amusement and less annoyance as the season goes on.
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ColliderMay 22, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The biggest issue Adults has is failing to develop more depth for its characters, as well as how confidently that depth can be mined for comedic potential. Sure, the whole premise is that these characters are finding who they are, but it's hard not to feel as though Adults is still finding itself right alongside its characters.
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May 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s fitfully funny, though half the cast is acting for the cheap seats and could do with dialing their performances down to, say, 11. Mostly, though, it makes you think of how many, many efforts there have been to reproduce what worked on “Friends.” .... [Charlie] Cox is warm and funny in the part (get this man a rom-com role), and the ultimate payoff to his arc feels fitting. More unusually for “Adults,” the plot gives the show something meaty to say about being young and seeking comfort in the wrong places. There may still be gold in these hills after all.
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IndieWireMay 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
What ultimately convinced me that my age isn’t the main obstacle to enjoying “Adults” is the simple fact that too many jokes build toward a punchline you can see from miles away, and too many episodes are built around choices that only a dumb twenty-something TV character would make, not a dumb real-life twenty-something.
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The GuardianMay 27, 2025
Season 1 Review:
If Adults shares one thing with today’s young people, it’s a formless, ambient sense of anxiety. Perhaps that will diffuse if the show is given time to grow, and these young adults learn what most twentysomethings do: in the game of winning friends and influencing people, one needn’t try so hard.
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