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Positive:
9
Mixed:
13
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews
ColliderSep 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Overall, Chad Powers feels like the television equivalent of a true freshman who came out of nowhere to win the prized Heisman trophy, courtesy of a fantastic leading man in Powell, tremendous supporting performances, and a story that knows exactly when to utilize the best plays for cheeky comedy or poignant drama.
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Sep 26, 2025Screen RantOct 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
As it stands, Powell is carrying Chad Powers on his shoulders. He’s funny, charismatic, and committed, and he mastered the art of a performance within a performance in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. The writing just needs to catch up to the hilarity, originality, and conviction of Powell’s performance.
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The TimesOct 2, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Despite a good central performance by Powell, it’s hard to really care about Russ/Chad. ... But while the comedy lacks the life-affirming positivity of Ted Lasso or the redemptive quality of Stick, there will still be plenty of viewers cheering on Chad at the end of this six-episode season.
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Sep 29, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The bizarre prosthetics and silly voice make it hard to take Chad quite as seriously as the series would like us to. .... There is a lot of loose angst flying around by the end of the season, which is obviously not, or not meant to be, the end of the story. Nothing is concluded.
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Sep 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
If the finale is a starting point for the somewhat dark story Chad Powers actually wants to be, you can consider me truly curious. If the finale is just a contrived speed bump to over-extend what’s conventional about the show and its unpersuasive redemptive arc, I don’t like Chad Powers very much at all.
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The TelegraphSep 30, 2025
RogerEbert.comSep 26, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The most irritating aspect of “Chad Powers” isn’t Powell’s rather too self-satisfied “transformation” into the title character, which is never quite believable because they have the same distinctive eye shape; nor is it the constant echoes of “Ted Lasso” and the many elements of the sports movie that have been plunked down but not sufficiently rethought. It’s that there’s a far more interesting show happening in the margins with Ricky and Jake Hudson.
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