Catch-22 (2019)

:

Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: May 17, 2019
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 37
  3. Negative: 6 out of 37
Watch Now

Where To Watch

Stream On
Buy on
Stream On
Stream On
Expand

Review this tv show

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling

User Reviews

view
per page
  1. Pitbulllover
    May 21, 2019
    0
    I gave this series two episodes, but I had to give up because it is so boring and doesn't capture the humor of the book. Clooney and his partner think they are so clever, but most of the stuff they do is pretentious garbage. I don't think they understand the tone of the book. Clooney shouldn't have let his partner direct the pilot OR star in it. Ugh.
  2. prospero45
    Jul 29, 2019
    1
    If you have not read the book, this series may come across as a serviceable, lightweight, stand alone comedy drama. If you have read the book it can only be seen as a tragic failure, so inept and unadventurous as to be insulting to the viewer.

    The central character in the book, Yossarian, is a gritty, conflicted, **** crazy antihero. This yossarian is a namby pamby, petulant narcissist.    If you have not read the book, this series may come across as a serviceable, lightweight, stand alone comedy drama. If you have read the book it can only be seen as a tragic failure, so inept and unadventurous as to be insulting to the viewer.

    The central character in the book, Yossarian, is a gritty, conflicted, **** crazy antihero. This yossarian is a namby pamby, petulant narcissist. Only Milo Minderbinder is chosen out of the rest of the cast for even a half hearted attempt at development. The rest are fleeting ghosts with no suggestion of authenticity. The great set pieces from the novel, like Captain Blacks great Loyalty Oath Crusade were excised wholesale.

    There are no words of mine which could begin to convey the awfulness of this adaptation. There is no sense that a war is happening at all, apart from the flying scenes. The madness, the fear, the tension are all absent, as is, for the most part, the comedy. Clooney layers on the nostalgia and sentimentality at every opportunity, which is unforgivable when adapting the most unsentimental book of its time.

    A thousand curses on the head of George Clooney for this gloop, this tripe. May the dung of ten thousand camels fall upon him.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

85
#85 Best TV Season of 2019
57
#57 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 34
  3. Negative: 1 out of 34
  1. The Independent
    Reviewed by: Ed Cumming
    Jan 3, 2020
    60
    Lots of people will like Catch-22, especially those who thought the book was impossible to do well on screen. In the end it left me cold. Six hours is a long time without sympathy.
    Read full review
  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Adrian Horton
    Dec 3, 2019
    80
    Clooney’s adaptation is immediately impressive – visually deserving of a bigger than a laptop screen – with a cohesive, arid palette and shots ranging wildly in scope from resonant closeup to sweeping landscape. But it takes a couple of episodes to settle into the show’s polarizing rhythm, which is less a film-making issue than the high-level entry to the source material’s cunning conceit.
    Read full review
  3. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    May 30, 2019
    45
    The Nichols film still gleams with the diamond-hard fury of the book and echoes with its mad laughter. The tepid Hulu series has neither. Next to the movie, the Hulu series looks like a pallid corpse drained by a vampire.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »