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Critic Reviews
Oct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A smart, well-made family sitcom that strikes an effective balance of prickly dysfunction and coming-of-age poignancy shouldn’t be such a rare thing on broadcast TV. But it is. The CW’s desperation has yielded that rarest of gifts: a network comedy that’s actually worth watching.
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The GuardianOct 17, 2024
Season 2 Review:
As a satire of ultra-conservative attitudes, it embraces the frisson of transgression that comes with showcasing David’s household autocracy, but it also punctures these ideas in a satisfying fashion, resulting in something cathartically progressive but never preachy.
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Oct 25, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There is a certain sort of downbeat, naturalistic, kitchen-sink comedy that the British do well and whose tone no American equivalent has ever quite captured, or perhaps tried to. .... I will enjoy these six borrowed episodes to the utmost, and suggest that you do too.
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The TimesJul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It wouldn't work half as well without Bird's manic energy as David. .... It is sharply, wittily written too. OK, it's not Father Ted, but I haven't seen religion mocked as warmly as this for years. It may evoke complaints from some quarters, but there is no nastiness.
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The GuardianJul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
David's unwitting hypocrisy and unshakeable selfishness (pushing a mother and her sick baby behind him in the Elders' advice queue) are the butt of the jokes; the extremity and perversion of Christianity by the Order is what they have in their sights. Beyond that, it's simply very, very funny, all the way.
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Oct 26, 2023
Oct 26, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Everyone Else Burns has hints of a Schitt’s Creek level of upside in which early broad punchlines built around a single easy joke and a central family give way to more of a community portrait and to a tone with more heart. Already I’ve got some affection for the characters played by Robinson, Al Roberts as a more progressive elder in the church and, especially, Lolly Adefope as a teacher who sees and nurtures Rachel’s potential.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Radio TimesJul 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
A few unresolved plot threads and a lack of comeuppance for deserving characters suggest that the writers are holding out for a second season, but it's hard not to wish for some resolution when such a thing is no guarantee. It makes for a sitcom that is enjoyable enough in the moment but all too easy to shrug off, which is not what you'd expect from a premise with potential to be so provocative.
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