Easy

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2016
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10

Critic Reviews

  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Sep 23, 2016
    60
    And yet one wishes that Swanberg had tried a bit harder to get out of his intimate, meandering comfort zone. It would be interesting to see what Swanberg would produce if he gave himself a more difficult challenge.
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Sep 21, 2016
    60
    The Maron episode, the fifth, is the best of the bunch, and feels at least somewhat biographical. ... Other episodes have a tendency to feel narratively forced.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Sep 21, 2016
    60
    The low-key, improvisatory nature of the work can strike some as remarkably natural and authentic, and others as fingernails-on-the-blackboard exasperating. ... [The actors are] all good, though only Ms. Mbatha-Raw really breaks through the restraints of the short format and delivers something powerful.
  5. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Sep 26, 2016
    50
    It throws a wide array of actors, including Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Aya Cash, Marc Maron, Elizabeth Reaser, Orlando Bloom, and Raúl Castillo, into varying scenarios about love, sex, marriage, and everything in between, and the results are, predictably, mixed. In the end, though, the series indulges way more mundane ramblings than anything particularly interesting.

Awards & Rankings

77
#77 Best TV Season of 2016

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 51
  3. Negative: 14 out of 51
  1. Bardock
    Sep 23, 2016
    1
    I had to create an account here just to express how bad this major cringe-fest is, probably one of the worst series I have ever watched onI had to create an account here just to express how bad this major cringe-fest is, probably one of the worst series I have ever watched on Netflix. It surprises me that all of the mainstream outlets are giving this relatively OK reviews because the show is absolutely terrible. The show uses stereotypical forced feminist comedy and it's just not enjoyable to watch unless you are laughing at the show itself.… Full Review »
  2. c469399
    Sep 24, 2016
    2
    Tries too hard to seem naturalistic but nobody in reality talks like that. It just has the effect that many of the conversations areTries too hard to seem naturalistic but nobody in reality talks like that. It just has the effect that many of the conversations are unbearable. And it's just BLA BLA BLA while not much of substance comes across. But they are all very easy and fun. If that was the purpose of the whole thing, saying nothing but very casually, then they succeeded.… Full Review »
  3. librocop
    Sep 23, 2016
    3
    Easy is a Netflix Original Series that follows the lives of different people all living in Chicago as they fumble through the modern maze ofEasy is a Netflix Original Series that follows the lives of different people all living in Chicago as they fumble through the modern maze of love, sex, technology, and culture.
    With that all out of the way, this is a terribly written, lousy TV series. With weird capping plot holes and very poorly developed plot lines, the episodes stumble through bad comedy with very obvious agenda pushing undertones. Some of the comedy and plot lines are so forced I felt like I was getting lectured rather than showing a Television show. They tackle issues in such a stereotypical and poorly executed manner that they ruin any chance of interest or insight into them.
    The only upside I could see is that many of the actors performed quite well and some of the set designs are really nice.
    All in all, I say give this one a pass.    … Full Review »
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