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Critic Reviews
IndieWireMar 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
David Makes Man feels like a show that can grow into itself nicely, finding exactly what it wants to show the audience and what it knows it doesn’t need to as it goes along. But right from the start, there’s a distinct rhythm that’ll hook you; a tonal confidence that’s as rhapsodic as it can be calm.
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Sep 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
In the end, this show may wind up going the way of Rectify, an almost pure form of character drama in which storylines take a backseat to the sheer pleasure of watching a human being evolve before one’s eyes, as David Young does on David Makes Man. Either way, I know I'll be watching.
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Jun 22, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Patterson is so astonishingly good at channeling the specific energy, tics, and speech patterns McDowell spent Season 1 developing for David—as are Arlen Escarpeta as Adult JG (originated by Cayden K. Williams) and Erica Luttrell as Adult Marissa (originated by Lindsey Blackwell)—that I’m willing to be convinced. If you were a fan of David Makes Man when it first premiered, I hope you’re willing to be convinced, too.
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Aug 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Each episode contains and depicts its distinct arcs with sure-footed certainty, although visuals are meant to seduce us and make us question if what we’re seeing is real. But McCraney, who co-wrote the Oscar-winning “Moonlight,” ensures there is a reason behind each dreamlike flourish.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Coming-of-age tales are nothing new, but few have the authenticity and poignant power of David's. [19 Aug - 1 Sep 2019, p.13]
Aug 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The show endows its hero with a complex internal life. ... It’s impossible to predict, based on the five languidly paced episodes sent to critics, where the show will end up–but McCraney seems too invested in the people around David to leave them behind. Even as it immerses us in his subjectivity, David Makes Man builds vivid, sympathetic supporting characters.
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Aug 13, 2019
Aug 12, 2019
Season 1 Review:
“David Makes Man” offers haunting themes as serialized drama, some familiar (drug dealing) and other less so, particularly the impact of abuse and trauma, which is shown through David’s dreams, waking reveries and imagination. While the latter is the most challenging aspect of the series, it’s also what makes “David Makes Man” distinct.
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Mar 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
David Makes Man is hard to quantify as an ongoing TV series working in a superficially familiar genre, but it's easy to tell that its poignant humanism, a potent mixture of gritty clarity and a dreamlike nostalgia for childhood and the past, is something distinctive. ... The pilot, written by McCraney and directed by Michael Francis Williams, is half-theater, half-indie movie and feels most cumbersome when any sort of plot is inserted.
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Jul 8, 2021
Season 2 Review:
It is disappointing to report that the first three episodes of Season 2, which premièred in June, denature much of what made Season 1 a non-normative surprise. I’m not bothered by the “This Is Us” time jump, to a couple of decades into the future—it’s the general decline in quality. The dialogue, which had been so poetic and fascinatingly oblique, now seems insecure and utilitarian.
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