Catch-22 (2019)

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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
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  1. Kuggz
    May 17, 2019
    7
    A funny and dramatic show with enjoyable music yet it could have been one episode shorter to keep from getting a little too repetitive.
  2. peramoure
    May 26, 2019
    10
    Personally, I love it. It's entertaining. Not a perfect representation of the book but I enjoyed it til the end. Don't let these pessimistic reviews turn you off - a funny and enthralling satire on war
  3. Apolsc
    Jun 24, 2019
    8
    Great acting, nice photography, well paced and fine music selection for this mini series. They way it goes from comedy to drama is really powerful.
  4. MattHarter
    May 26, 2019
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Catch 22 is really hard to make into anmovie or a show. It could be funnier but a lot of the humor in the book is in the narration. They also merge and cut many characters which is needed, the plus side of that is it's easier to follow especially because unlike the book it is shot chronologically. It may sound like I'm complaining a lot but I dont mind any of those things. I love the casting of Cathart, yossarian, major major, and Milo. It's beautiful shot and it does a great job of expanding Yossarians story line though at the cost of cutting out major characters, most notably Cpt. Black and ex PFC Wintergeen. As a huge fan of the book I am eternally grateful the series was made. I enjoyed the ride and was left wishing the series would go on forever.… Expand
  5. melihkurtulus
    Jun 19, 2019
    9
    Catch-22 might be the one of the most difficult novels in literary history to adapt into a movie or TV series. Actually calling this book "novel" is to undermine its merits. It is a "Postmodern masterpiece". I've read some comments about the director's and the screen-writer's inability to reflect the humor of the book. Actually there can be no other work (be it written or visual) that canCatch-22 might be the one of the most difficult novels in literary history to adapt into a movie or TV series. Actually calling this book "novel" is to undermine its merits. It is a "Postmodern masterpiece". I've read some comments about the director's and the screen-writer's inability to reflect the humor of the book. Actually there can be no other work (be it written or visual) that can reflect or equate the humor of Catch-22, which actually proves the genius of Joseph Heller.

    The directors chose a more if not complete Aristotelian plot structure for the series. Actually I do not know how one can make a movie out of a collage. I guess you have to put the events into order to make your visual work more watchable, and this is successfully done by the director and the writer of the series. Also, I believe that this inadequacy in adapting a complex-structured literary work into a visual one shows the advantages of writing a literary work (which has its own difficulties in itself, but since it is not a literary blog I'll put this subject aside and write that this is as great an adaptation of the Joseph Heller's postmodern masterpiece as possible.    … Expand

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

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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.
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  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.
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  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.
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