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Positive:
8
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Sep 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Call them liberals, Democrats, anti-Trumpers or just plain fed up. They’re losing their minds and this awkward, uneven, funny and sometimes moving program from satirist and playwright Paul Rudnick and director Jay Roach (“Recount,” “Bombshell”) attempts to capture the progressive zeitgeist. ... Sharynn Tarrows (Dever) is exhausted after a 14-hour shift, and her testimony is so moving it redeems some of the weaker aspects of “Coastal Elites.”
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Jan 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Rudnick's efforts to evolve "Coastal Elites" from a live stage production a montage of quarantine solo performances for HBO are apparent even so, and the actors' handle that pivot as expertly as one can. But in making this necessary transition the casualty is the sense of commiseration a "Coastal Elites" audience might have gotten from being in the company of likeminded souls indulging in an evening of theater.
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Sep 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Too often infuriatingly loud, overplays too many dramatic beats and takes what should have been a series of intimate monologues and makes them cartoonish. Directed with no real sense of volume control by Jay Roach from a script of wildly varying quality by Paul Rudnick, Coastal Elites is airing as a 90-minute feature on HBO, some acting exercises loosely bound in a pandemic sausage casing.
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Sep 1, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Coastal Elites” isn’t nearly introspective enough to get past its semi-ironic title to say anything new about the people or feelings it’s trying to examine. ... Watching “Coastal Elites,” it’s strange to know that it so insistently labels itself a satire when it’s so painfully earnest in practice.
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