• Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 4, 2023
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 15
  2. Negative: 3 out of 15

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  1. Mar 13, 2023
    1
    Went from normal to woke in record speed. Was wondering why NetFlix, an evil racist pro slavery company, sponsored this. Now it's clear as day. All white people are racist. J6 was an insurrection and not people let in by the police and given a guided tour. Same tired worn out liberal talking points from MSNBC. Seems we forgot what comedy is. Sad to see another victim of group thinkWent from normal to woke in record speed. Was wondering why NetFlix, an evil racist pro slavery company, sponsored this. Now it's clear as day. All white people are racist. J6 was an insurrection and not people let in by the police and given a guided tour. Same tired worn out liberal talking points from MSNBC. Seems we forgot what comedy is. Sad to see another victim of group think mentality. The comedians are a dying breed and this is evidence of it. Expand
  2. Mar 8, 2023
    10
    The mainstream liberal media crybabies hate his show because he tell the truth about them.

    So they of course give his skit bad reviews.

    Chris Rock could care less.
  3. Mar 6, 2023
    4
    Just sorta bland. Another person described it as stale. Second half is better than the first, but overall it just wasn't...that...funny.
  4. Mar 12, 2023
    7
    I just wanted to comment on reviewers that say things like "Liberal Cry Babies", are usually pieces of crap.

    So to summarize the special, first 80% was ok but unoriginal. The last 20% was really what everyone was waiting for, and he was raw and ferocious and funny.
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Reviewed by: Bob Strauss
    Mar 9, 2023
    50
    On Saturday, March 4, audiences were treated to an hour of the comedian toggling between reactionary and woke gags, along with racial/sexual/cultural observations, before he unloaded on Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith for about eight minutes with a year’s worth of pent-up vitriol. Like his earlier material, Rock’s verbal counterpunches were at times funny, insightful and sometimes righteous. They also included some of the lowest blows ever directed at individuals in the context of an entertainment program.
  2. Mar 8, 2023
    40
    Rock’s signature delivery became a lifeline, elevating the only mildly amusing, and sustaining the breath in even the drabbest material. None of the jokes will rise to the level of iconic, or even memorable, I’m afraid. ... His delivery works when nothing else does—and, in “Selective Outrage,” little did.
  3. Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Mar 6, 2023
    70
    The [post-set] idea was for the comics to lend their expert opinion about each joke – entirely unnecessary, given that they landed as they should have. Besides, the incendiary fervor of the closing segment eclipses the rest of it in the immediate memory. ... Everything that comes before the last 10 minutes of "Selective Outrage" is, by the standards of Chris Rock's show at this point in his career, solid if not especially pointed.