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Critic Reviews
May 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
People are dogs, too. We also have complicated emotional lives, further complicated by our professional ones. We also seek food. We also seek love. We obsess. Nan and Martin’s bond works--and consequently this terrific series works--because it abides by these simple, inalienable truths.
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Uncle BarkyMay 16, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Downward Dog obviously could have gone very wrong. Instead it gets almost everything irresistibly right, whether it’s Martin’s simple yet challenging life (“I’m only human,” he reasons) or the accompanying two-legged human endeavors that shift his mind into overdrive and this series into the realm of the near-sublime.
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May 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Downward is shaggy but sweet, a surreal little Scooby snack. [19 May 2017, p.54]
May 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The new TV series Downward Dog takes on loneliness and fear and all the other gunk that gets caught in your spiritual gutters when you start feeling low. It can be warm, but only once its characters push their way through searing self-doubt to get to the other side.
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May 16, 2017
Season 1 Review:
As with any show built around a high-concept gimmick, there’s a danger here that the trick will wear thin; that we’ll tire of Martin’s low-energy observations. (Ned, at least as filmed, is the most morose dog on the planet.) But for now, be content with how much this Dog has going for it, starting with the gentle way it ambles along, speaking softly rather than barking at us, and including the sweet chemistry between Neff and Tolman.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
One of the most unexpected and endearing surprises of the late spring. [29 May - 11 Jun 2017, p.12]
May 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Although it’s nicely scruffy around the edges, it’s essentially a gimmick show with not enough funny lines to make Martin’s sonorous narration appealing after you listen to him for more than 15 minutes. Tolman is very good, but you walk away from the show thinking she really could have done better than this as her post-Fargo project.
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May 16, 2017
May 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The weird, creepy comedy about the world of a struggling copy writer from her dog’s perspective. ... Three episodes of this show and I was fantasizing about dropping this flea bag off at a shelter and speeding away. Oh, some of the bipeds here are endearing, when they get their moments.
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Jan 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Occasionally, his dog-ologue finds great material--such as Martin’s fear of an automatic door turning into the dawning realization that he must have secret powers over the universe--but that is smothered with oddly entitled “zingers” about the dog’s dissatisfaction with “monogamy.”
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