Clipped (2024)

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 4, 2024
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21

Critic Reviews

  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Nina Metz
    Jun 5, 2024
    50
    Welch has a lot on her mind but not all of it coheres. The show is strongest when it’s less focused on Stiviano’s grasping desire for fame or recreating her awkward interview with Barbara Walters (in which she clunkily described herself as Sterling’s “right hand arm man”) and more interested in longstanding issues of racism in the NBA and the tense debates Sterling’s bigotry provoked for Rivers and the players.
  2. TVLine
    Reviewed by: Dave Nemetz
    May 21, 2024
    42
    A gaudy and campy docudrama sung in the key of Ryan Murphy (though Murphy isn’t involved in this production), Clipped bites off far more than it can chew. It’s part underdog sports drama, part overheated soap opera and part overly broad cultural satire… none of which are entirely successful.
  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Jesse Hassenger
    Jun 4, 2024
    40
    Fishburne is easily the most charismatic and empathetic of the leads, and he becomes a de facto supporting character once Sterling’s racism becomes (more) public. There’s a lot of lip service paid to how these stresses affect the Clippers and their first serious run at a championship in ages, but that material never really deepens until Rivers becomes more prominent in the final episode again.
  5. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Jun 3, 2024
    40
    Despite some good performances, particularly by Laurence Fishburne as Doc Rivers, and some isolated scenes, it doesn’t offer up nearly enough that’s new to merit the dramatization. .... The storytelling itself is mostly lacking. It’s six largely by-the-numbers hours.