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Positive:
9
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Jun 7, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Linney and Dukakis shoulder the weight of these new hours, although Morelli writes an edged selfishness into Mary Ann that would be irritating if not for Linney’s lithe, comedic handling of her self-absorption. ... The fact that this new San Francisco doesn’t invade “Tales of the City” is one of the show’s greatest attractions. That inevitability lurks around the periphery, but the timeless nature of Barbary Lane and the city’s loyalty to its mother figure somehow defeats its incursion. That in itself makes this series worth savoring.
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Jun 6, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There are moments when the series is a bit too obvious in its efforts to be contemporary, in order to expand the saga of Barbary Lane beyond the 1970s sensibility where it began. A bit about a pair of twins, Ani and Raven (Ashley Park and Christopher Larkin), who are obsessed with becoming rich and famous through Instagram, is grating. But the attempts to reveal a wide range of sex and gender identities are generally refreshing, and they help make this return to Barbary Lane and the spectacular views from its roof a little more than nostalgic.
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Jun 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
But even as I rolled my eyes or scratched my head at various developments, the performances and the optimistic (and very Maupin) spirit buoyed me through the whole thing. Turning Mary Ann into everyone’s most exhausting friend allows Linney to deploy her underrated comic chops. ... The new Tales is imperfect, but it’s beautiful enough in spots to qualify.
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Apr 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The nature of [Mary Ann and her daughter's] fractured bond will be legible enough to viewers without intimate familiarity with the previous installments. What will, perhaps, feel new is the somewhat dowdy approach to storytelling, a fundamental old-fashionedness that exists in interesting contrast to those elements of the story that are new.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 6, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Soppily sentimental, succumbing to Netflix bloat with 10 uneven episodes, it feels like a mopey Freeform soap when the focus turns to self-absorbed, gender-fluid millennials. [10 - 23 Jun 2019, p.9]
Jun 5, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There’s no energy or conviction in the storytelling, and while Linney, Gross, Bartlett and Page occasionally strike some sparks when they’re onscreen together, scene after scene goes by free of any real dramatic or emotional payoff. ... The story lines involving the younger characters consistently default to flat, safe conversations about gender and queerness. ... Draggy, preachy and a little morbid.
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