- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 9, 2011
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[A] terrific second season of this industry-set sitcom. [17/24 Aug 2012, p.109]
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It's a thoroughly entertaining romp, with the television industry as a combination Tilt-A-Whirl/merry-go-round.
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As smartly written as it is played, Episodes offers the comic pleasures, not just of clashing cultures, but of contrasting comic styles.
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Still fun, but the innocent first moments last season were better.
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It has more heart than I first credited it with, and the season-long arc involving Sean and Beverly is both funny and touching.
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Episodes has a sly subversiveness that deepens over time, like mercury poisoning: it's an adult farce that is at once frothy and acerbic.
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Episodes isn't a weighty series at all, but these actors elevate every scene they are in with spot-on comic timing and a graceful ability to play a range of conflicting emotions at once.
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The second season looks to be equally incisive [as the first]. With heart.
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Of the two series [Web Therapy and Episodes], Episodes is the most consistent and polished. It's also the one show that finds a groove and is happy to patter around its middling course.
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Season 2 of the Hollywood satire still plays too broad, [...] But Matt LeBlanc's understated performance as himself has gotten even better. [9 Jul 2012, p.36]
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Watching things go to hell was great fun. Being stuck in sitcom hell turns out to be a bit more trying.
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Episodes continues to tread much of the same ground it covered last season, serving mainly as a satire of Hollywood liars who can't act and actors who don't know how to lie.
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The show is not just about the struggle between the good and the mediocre, it is itself a struggle between the good and the mediocre.
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A breezy but uninspired half-hour defined by Matt LeBlanc's willingness to portray Matt LeBlanc as a swaggering jerk.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 65
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Mixed: 6 out of 65
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Negative: 0 out of 65
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