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Positive:
7
Mixed:
15
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4
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comMar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
What unfurls is Faulkernesque as we see Joy via her family’s flashbacks. She powers the plot but does so mostly in her absence as we see her from others’ points of view. .... Bening never lets Joy fade. She is powerful when she needs to be, vulnerable and pensive all at once.
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Mar 14, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“Apples Never Fall” captures the potential of a beach read you can binge. The scenic setting and propulsive pace are effective cues to turn off one’s brain, but the emotional foundation is solid enough for its central family to resonate as real people, however soapy their struggles may seem.
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Mar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The miniseries isn’t one that deserves to be savored slowly, episode by episode, so much as watched swiftly and not taken too seriously. If the ending to the mystery is predictable, the getting there has enough value as a well-acted, dishy look at a family whose pit of secrets and lies seems bottomless.
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IndieWireMar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Even if it looks the part, “Apples Never Fall” isn’t the next great prestige limited series. It’s highly likely you’ll forget about it a few days after you’re finished. But it’s an engaging, earnest, and fun trip to South Florida (which is only possible via television).
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LooperApr 1, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Even if you buy the idea that all four kids are still so caught up in their parents' comings and goings, you may still wonder things like how old each of them is. We're never told that (outside of one of the kids), although we're told Joy's age ad nauseam. But between the way the story is arranged and the riveting performances by the talented ensemble, this series is still mostly a winner.
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The IndependentSep 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It is an emerging portmanteau genre, designed to unite men and women, young and old, in something mildly exciting, mildly titillating and mildly relatable. The result is a show that lacks the crunch of a Pink Lady, but still has the mellow tones and summer flavourings of a Golden Delicious.
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Mar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The seven-episode mini-series is so well-oiled and unsurprising, it just glides on by. .... And if “Apples” were just a domestic drama, that would probably be enough to sustain a story. But the show is also a missing-person mystery that is nowhere near as mysterious as it seems to think it is.
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Mar 15, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While the series starts strong and captures your interest for five of its seven episodes, by the finale all the exhilaration of domestic mystery collapses. It's more disappointing than angering – the miniseries had the potential to take your breath away. Instead, you may wander away before you finish.
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Mar 13, 2024iSep 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There’s little that stands out to me about Apples Never Fall which, I suspect, is sort of the point. This is a programme designed to fill the space left by Big Little Lies and the copycats that followed. Apples Never Fall didn’t have to reinvent the crime drama to be watchable, but given its revered pedigree, I expected it to at least try.
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Mar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
More than anything, Apples Never Fall is just downright disappointing. With grand promises of f—ked up family secrets and over-the-top drama, Apples Never Fall fails to deliver on either front, resulting in a mystery thriller that barely heats to a simmer, let alone boils hot enough to justify its overlong binge.
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ColliderMar 13, 2024
The Daily BeastMar 13, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The acting is inconsistent (even Neill’s hotheaded performance can verge on John McEnroe camp), and the directing workmanlike. All of which might have been forgivable if the script, from premise to characters to the execution of big plot twists, wasn’t such a disaster.
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