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Critic Reviews
Jun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Feed the Beast is ultimately a study of characters caught up in not-so-quiet desperation, struggling for survival in an irrationally and implacably hostile universe, and it's the bobbing, weaving mutual orbit of Schwimmer and Sturgess that make the show an absorbing experience.
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Jun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
[Schwimmer's] the great strength of the series, along with Mr. Sturgess, whose Dion is a commanding portrait of endless faith in his dream, to say nothing of endless resilience. ... [A] beguiling tale whose kitchen scenes and gourmet dish preparations provide the ultimate sizzle.
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Jun 6, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Schwimmer and Sturgess are so darn good in their roles you forgive the writers. Schwimmer, for instance, uses those sad, puppy dog eyes of his to play up his grief, and Sturgess really has the charming cad thing down. They really cook up some chemistry in the scenes with just them.
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Jun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
While Beast runs these best buddies through the obvious scrappy start-up hurdles, it never tries to pretend that not opening the restaurant is a potential outcome. The threats facing Dion and Tommy are much broader and more colorful, but they take the show in tonal directions that compromise its integrity.
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May 28, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The performances are fine, but the poorly mixed tone, cliche strategies for complex characterization (grief, addiction, obsession), and zesty conflict (psycho mobsters, corrupt cops) make for a flavorless dish. [3 Jun 2016, p.102]
IndieWireJun 6, 2016
Jun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Where Bourdain and Melville go to painstaking lengths to describe the addictions, hardships, and unending effort that went into the toils at the center of their tales, Feed the Beast only expresses a basic admiration for the process and love for the end product, which makes [creator Clyde] Phillips's perspective feel more like that of a hungry customer than of a relentless artist in the kitchen.
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Jun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
While it drives the plot, the restaurant is a garnish for the more prominent, and equally unconvincing, parts of the story: Dion’s involvement with a gourmandising Polish mobster (Michael Gladis) and Tommy’s attempt to break out of his funk, be a competent single father and relate to his own dad (John Doman).
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Jun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Dion’s character is written in such a clumsy and obvious way that Sturgess’s only option is to drench a lot of acting sauce on his scenes and then proceed to chew ’em all up. Schwimmer, on the other hand, seems to be drawing from an authentic well of nuance, even when the writing is doing him no favors at all.
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Jun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Feed the Beast often traffics in clichés, including some of Tommy’s grief as he talks to his wife’s headstone, much of his drinking problem, and almost all of the somewhat silly mob material. The acting, too, is exceedingly amped, with Schwimmer and Sturgess overdoing it to the point of irritation.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 20, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The series only truly comes alive when Dion is concocting one of this sumptuous meals in a fiery frenzy of inspiration. [23 May-3 Jun 2016, p.15]
RogerEbert.comJun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Feed the Beast vacillates from being something we’ve seen often to something that’s just not believable, and the dialogue sounds produced by a computer designed to write melodrama. Schwimmer (and co-star Lorenza Izzo) sometimes pierce through the predictability, but everyone else gets lost in a messy show that just can’t compete in today’s TV market.
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Jun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It's a tossup as to what exactly about Beast you may find least bearable. For some, it will be the mix of crime-show melodrama, cheap cynicism and soap-opera theatrics. For others, it will be the sad fact that no one involved seems to have ever heard an actual human being speak.
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