- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 7, 2019
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Flawed, narcissistic and doing its best. Sometimes it’s doing its best a bit too hard.
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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]
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A woefully uneven Netflix version that makes "Tales" look stale, proving even with the near-mystical 28 Barbary Lane, you can't always go home again.
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There are a handful of scenes where the writing, acting, and gutsiness of the underlying story cohere into something raw and striking and well made. In other moments, though, Tales of the City feels like a rough draft, both bloated and aimless.
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Poignant but flavorless. ... The series, as stilted and theatrical as ever, remains a time capsule of the freewheeling San Francisco come and gone.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 12
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Mixed: 1 out of 12
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Negative: 4 out of 12
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Jun 9, 2019Amazing, i loved this show so much. It's really good, go watch it guys!!!!!