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Critic Reviews
Jun 13, 2019
Season 4 Review:
Comedically, Baskets has basically remained the same, minus some of its more abrasive shades exhibited early on. ... Baskets has always been comfortable playing itself as an unfussy drama, often privileging melancholic portraiture over punchlines. However, this season trades in depression for self-improvement, and the results are more poignant than ever before.
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Jan 17, 2017
Season 2 Review:
The show's vision remains consistent. It's a world so absurdly horrible that clowns seem besides the point, and the only sensible response is dark, deadpan humor. [20 Jan 2017, p.55]
Jan 21, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Chip is an angry guy wholly consumed with himself, but as ludicrous as he may be, Galifianakis makes him feel stubbornly real. Chip is a bitter, middle-age guy holding on to his dream so tightly he's suffocating himself. That commitment also extends to Louie Anderson, who brilliantly plays Chip's mom, Christine--yes, his mom (in drag).
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IndieWireJan 22, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It’s hard to predict where the series is headed, or even if the delicate mix of jokes and introspective moments can keep walking the tightrope, let alone dance on it. But there’s something here worth keeping an eye on--the people, really. Galifianakis, Anderson and especially Kelly fill Baskets with possibility, even if it’s not exactly brimming with energy from the onset.
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Jan 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
With her understated, monotone delivery no matter the situation, Kelly just might be the comedic find of the season. Galifianakis delivers a finely tuned grump as Chip and an over-the-top shrew as Dale. Under co-creator, executive producer and director Jonathan Krisel’s sensitive care, Baskets is a funny show about sad people.
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Jan 21, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The series is set in recognizably real environments, and the photography, editing, and sound design are often as moody and intense as anything in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson.... Chip’s arrogance and obliviousness undercut any sympathy we might feel for him. Only Galifianakis’s distinctive energy keeps us from finding the character entirely unpalatable.
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Jan 20, 2016
Season 1 Review:
When the show works as a comedy--which it does at about a 30-70 ratio--it’s all about an accumulation of silliness, delivered with a straight and yearning face, rather than clear-eyed observation.... But a comedy that inspires more pathos than laughter isn't necessarily failed. It just might be mislabeled.
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Jan 21, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The character [Zach Galifianakis] plays in Baskets (along with the main character's twin brother) is too often unfunny and too mean to the poor insurance adjuster, but I found [Martha Kelly's insurance adjuster character] and Chip's mother to be pretty entertaining.
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Jan 19, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Baskets is bold, it is courageous, but it doesn’t really work. It’s not that a TV comedy has to offer wall-to-wall belly laughs, but unrelenting bleakness with the minor relief of a few scattered bits of dry humor--no matter how much it may aspire to a neo-Beckettian level--ends up being more bemusing than amusing.
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Jan 20, 2016
Season 1 Review:
[Chip's mother] is played with Baskets’ one true flash of inspiration by Louie Anderson. Anderson inhabits Christine Baskets with a wonderful, tart delicacy.... Chip Baskets is most often a selfish creep. It’s a brave move for a performer to make, and congratulations to Galifianakis for his commitment. Just don’t ask me to keep watching him in this role.
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