Boots

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2025
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21

Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Oct 9, 2025
    60
    There’s a timely element to this perfectly decent, good-hearted, unsurprisingly sentimental miniseries.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jackson McHenry
    Oct 17, 2025
    40
    Cope is so naïve and the show is so unwilling to build toward a larger critique that Boots comes off as propaganda.
  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Abby Monteil
    Oct 9, 2025
    40
    Boots—which was inspired by gay veteran Greg Cope White’s 2016 memoir The Pink Marine—struggles to live up to the “comedy” side of its dramedy title, creating a milquetoast coming-of-age story whose ultimate veneration of military life comes off queasy in 2025.
  5. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Nandini Balial
    Oct 9, 2025
    40
    There is an overriding chipper tone to the writing thanks to Lear’s momentous sitcom background, which doesn’t fit the subject. .... An oversimplification of what military life was and is actually like for queer service members, despite the creators’ best intentions.