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. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Sep 22, 2016
    90
    A naturalistic comedy of modern manners set among the young, less young and undeniably middle-aged people of Chicago, it's another basket of goodies turned up on the doorstep in a fall season barely started yet already full of them.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Sep 22, 2016
    88
    Subtext gives Easy its tart edge, emboldening it with an obsessiveness that resists fashionable platitudes. Swanberg captures the frictions between men and women and yuppies and bohemians, revealing a common core of fear that the other has got it better.
  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Sep 22, 2016
    83
    For as easy as it would be to get lost in the look and feel of the new series, Swanberg has a lot to say with Easy. Some arguments may be more compelling than others, and Easy itself is distinctly understated in almost every regard (much like its setting).
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Sep 22, 2016
    80
    There are moments in each episode when a disarming sincerity shines through, and you realize that you’re seeing that rarity of rarities: television characters who are having substantive, free-ranging conversations about something other than their own needs, and finding themselves getting closer to something like mutual understanding. This is hard to do without coming off as pompous or Polyannaish, but Easy makes it look easy.
  6. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Bernard Boo
    Sep 22, 2016
    80
    The themes and situations Swanberg and co. explore are so specific and relatable they sting.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Danette Chavez
    Sep 22, 2016
    75
    Ratajkowski’s insightful observations cut through Maron’s monologues, but there’s no clear winner, of course. There are no buttons here so much as pins in a discussion. Swanberg’s modular approach to storytelling offers one of the few true snacking options among Netflix’s binging fare, which is almost as satisfying.

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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