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Positive:
7
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3
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Critic Reviews
Radio TimesJun 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It's a fantastic feat to have a comedy series that feels so nostalgic and familiar, while also being thoughtful, considered and funny - but Changing Ends holds up its light tone and delivers a considered representation of the attitudes of the '80s, when being gay and expressive in your sexuality wasn't "tolerated", as Carr says.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Changing Ends clearly wants to avoid being angst-ridden, but there’s a dark thread here involving historical homophobia towards a spirited, vulnerable boy that keeps wriggling through. Elsewhere, it slips too mechanically, and too often, into Carr’s distinctive standup persona, but Savell is glorious as young Alan and there are proper giggles.
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iJul 15, 2024
Season 2 Review:
This is a series that pleasantly mines the comedy of small stakes: it doesn’t take much for a small town to be whipped into a frenzy nor does a pre-teen need any encouragement to be melodramatic. A few of the gags were obvious and a joke about the Kardashians – told by the older Carr – felt out of place, but there were plenty of solid laughs (like Val mixing up Helen Keller and Christine Keeler).
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The TelegraphJun 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The lower-middle-class 80s-ness is impeccably rendered. .... The lines are peppy too. But they’re all very obviously written in the voice of the adult Carr, which means laughs comes at the expense of distinctive character credibility. And the bubbly mood sometimes sits uncomfortably atop the bigotry, like froth on a bitter cappuccino.
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