Avenue 5

HBO | Release Date: January 19, 2020

5.7	USER SCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Ratings

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metabadMay 31, 2020

It's baffling that this show was created by Armando Iannucci who also created 'Veep'.
Maybe he wanted to do something silly and hoped to get away with it due to the success of 'Veep'. Well, it worked, kind of.
Not the show itself. ThatIt's baffling that this show was created by Armando Iannucci who also created 'Veep'.
Maybe he wanted to do something silly and hoped to get away with it due to the success of 'Veep'. Well, it worked, kind of.

Not the show itself. That didn't really work. The first episode is not good and the show only gets slowly better after that, but not really good enough.

Too many of the characters are not well written, especially Josh Gad's character.
Yes, he's very successful and rich, yet kind of dumb at the same time. We get it. How much jokes can you get out of such a one note character? I fear, we're gonna find out.
The rest of of the characters are based on good ideas but aren't well developed. So they lack wit and poignancy.
The humor actually provided is a little too dry for my taste. Or simply not funny enough?

I'm very generous with my rating only because of episode 8, the "We're not really in space" episode. I hope there's more where that came from.
Episode 9 was ok and I waited for the next episode until I realized that this episode was the season's anticlimactic finale. Very underwhelming.

Well, the show got renewed for a second season, waddaya know.
Let's hope for the best or maybe they'll at least correct the biggest problems...… Expand

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ShaManaMar 16, 2020

This show makes no sense, it's barely funny and the characters are heavily misdeveloped. I so much wanted to be interesting. The season finale was a massive wtf. It felt like it ended in the middle of an episode. The stakes were never builtThis show makes no sense, it's barely funny and the characters are heavily misdeveloped. I so much wanted to be interesting. The season finale was a massive wtf. It felt like it ended in the middle of an episode. The stakes were never built properly so you don't really care for any of the events. The plot makes no sense. It's presented as moderately realistic but it's not even remotely by any common sense factor. I don't believe this will get a second season.… Expand

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PromotionsOct 5, 2020

On paper this looked very exciting but unfortunately it failed to deliver. I've been a big fan of Armando Iannucci's writing for a long time but I feel he failed to live up to his high standards here. Most episodes might raise a smirk or twoOn paper this looked very exciting but unfortunately it failed to deliver. I've been a big fan of Armando Iannucci's writing for a long time but I feel he failed to live up to his high standards here. Most episodes might raise a smirk or two but nothing that extended to a laugh.
Some of the casting was poor I thought. Josh Gad as a Jack Black wannabe just didn't work. The normally excellent Rebecca Front seemed out of place playing an American "Karen" as was her on screen husband David Wallace, sorry I mean Andy Buckley. Also some others seemed uncomfortable in comedic roles and personally I wouldn't trust them to deliver an Amazon package never mind a funny line. On the plus side, Nikki Amuka-Bird as Rav was very good and was one of the few here to come out of it with any credit.… Expand

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