Flaked

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 11, 2016
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
43

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16

Critic Reviews

  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Dennis Perkins
    Mar 9, 2016
    58
    When the plot finally kicks in in the back half of the season, the unexpected shift in tone is intended to show how Chip’s apparently pointless life is the result of outside forces, but the series of twists (one clumsily telegraphed, the other a bit less so) don’t so much fill out the character as underscore how thin he was in the first place.
  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: Willa Paskin
    Mar 11, 2016
    50
    Quality-wise, Flaked slots right in the middle of the pack. It is not as original, lacerating, or self-aware as Louie and Girls, the progenitors of this trend, or as good as Transparent, the perfector of it, but it contains a deep and precise character sketch.... Flaked is irritating exactly to the extent that it takes Chip’s plight too seriously.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Mar 9, 2016
    50
    The series gets more substantive and quicker starting in Episode 6, but over all the pieces--man-boys on the prowl, bromance, occasional forays into seriousness--fit together uncomfortably.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Mar 7, 2016
    50
    Flaked is another horrid post-Togetherness drama-com that's too cute to be serious and too lame to be funny. [11 Mar 2016, p.78]
  6. Time
    Reviewed by: Daniel D'Addario
    Mar 7, 2016
    50
    Flaked has the stylings of a TV comedy--meandering and lazily plotted, it doesn't work as drama--yet actual humor is all too absent.... This is disappointing, because what Arnett and Flaked do well, they do better than they ought.
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Molly Eichel
    Mar 14, 2016
    40
    [Netflix's Love] at least felt fresh and directed in the way it surgically examined the tropes of the romantic comedy. It was a character study that had a purpose, explaining through its run why we were watching these characters to begin with. Flaked never answers that question.
  8. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Mar 10, 2016
    40
    By episode six, Flaked throws a real curve that’s nearly worth seeing through to the end, as Arnett’s performance deepens and the show becomes something more than just an excuse to loaf. The problem is getting there.
  9. Las Vegas Weekly
    Reviewed by: Josh Bell
    Mar 9, 2016
    40
    Flaked offers up weak jokes and even weaker drama, as later episodes pile on contrived, overwrought plot twists.

Awards & Rankings

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#13 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016
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#4 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

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User Score
3.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 231 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 74 out of 231
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 231
  3. Negative: 141 out of 231
  1. JJared79
    Mar 13, 2016
    0
    Can someone please tells me why Will arnett is still on tv?! I watched all the 8 episode 'cause on twitter i read some good reviews but now iCan someone please tells me why Will arnett is still on tv?! I watched all the 8 episode 'cause on twitter i read some good reviews but now i understand why you can believe Twitter... only his fans made good reviews. Its an awful show. Arnett seems a pervert not an alcolist, the girl, London, is embarassing ( even the actress acting was pretty bad). Its everything i despise in a woman and its a shame that a show made her the "lead" female charterer. The only reason why this trash will renewed is because the fan of Arnett, stop. But problably its not gonna last till a season 4 for sure.… Full Review »
  2. MarieJean
    Mar 11, 2016
    0
    If fuller house was bad this one is even worse! i hated the characters , the plot ..basically everything! The 2 big guys fight over a girlIf fuller house was bad this one is even worse! i hated the characters , the plot ..basically everything! The 2 big guys fight over a girl like they're 13, there's no respect for women and the leading actress is weird. For me its a big no.… Full Review »
  3. Antonio_78
    Mar 11, 2016
    0
    Where is the point in this show? Boring and totally non sense in some scenes. Didnt like Will too, and there wasnt chemistry between any ofWhere is the point in this show? Boring and totally non sense in some scenes. Didnt like Will too, and there wasnt chemistry between any of the characters… Full Review »
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