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Positive:
6
Mixed:
7
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0
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Critic Reviews
Feb 17, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The women of Flack are relentlessly savage: in their disdain for their wayward clients; in their open contempt for the stupid and greedy journalists they use as pawns in their schemes; and in their off-handed manipulation of their husbands and boyfriends. This is all very entertaining. Flack will undoubtedly win the Emmys for Bitchiest Dialogue and Best Puking Sound Effects.
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Feb 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Its six episodes will attract or repel you depending on your tolerance for the antics of the horrible privileged class--or perhaps the privileged horrible class--and watching characters you want to like let you, themselves and one another down. It can annoy you one moment and move you another. ... Barring a few passages where a thematic point is too explicitly made, Lansley writes believable dialogue; his scenes unfold discursively, taking interesting, meandering paths even to expected ends.
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Feb 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fast, frothy and fun, “Flack” only falters when it slows down and tries to get serious about Robyn’s issues – her mentally ill mother committed suicide; Robyn may have some mental health challenges, too – but when it sticks to its soapier agenda, “Flack” moves like a runaway train.
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Feb 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, Flack believes that we’re concerned with the characters’ personal lives, but mines very little compelling material from the subject, while it focuses less attention on their professional dynamic, which is its foremost strength. Still, it’s worth saying: Paquin, Okonedo, and Wilson are a powerful trio, and they might succeed in reshaping Flack’s narrative yet.
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Feb 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Flack can't explain what these publicists do or why they do it. The better material in Flack is based on character interactions and the cast. Paquin can't do anything about how predictable Robyn's self-destructive tendencies immediately become, but she delivers Lansley's dialogue well and has good chemistry with both Wilson, enjoyably smiling her way through some peak cattiness, and especially Angelson, saddled with the worst of the show's "Dear Lord are we doing this exact character again?" archetypes.
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Feb 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The professional challenges that Robyn faces are often plausible, and far more compelling than their resolutions, which are mostly stupid. Flack has little to say about celebrity culture with its stories of contrived sex tapes, hushed-up face-lifts, sham marriages, and bogus redemption narratives. ... The show gets somewhat less uninteresting around the fifth episode, which is set in the business-class cabin of a transatlantic flight and proves an intriguingly creepy role for Bradley Whitford.
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