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Critic Reviews
Apr 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Williams conveys Verdon’s star quality without letting it obscure her steely survivor’s core. In Mad Men terms, the character is Joan (an underestimated single mom), Betty (a betrayed wife rebuilding her life) and Peggy (a woman who’s just as talented and driven as any man in her field) in one.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 27, 2019
Season 1 Review:
A biographical drama every bit as daring and razzle-dazzling as the best of Fosse. [1-14 Apr 2019, p.12]
Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fosse/Verdon can never quite escape its deteriorating orbit, plunging closer and closer to the black hole that is its central subject, because it knows, deep down, how essential he is to American art. That could have tanked the whole project. And yet ... it doesn’t. Because, deep down, this is a fantastic show about a marriage.
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Apr 1, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Seeing them portrayed on the small screen by two major movie stars, Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell, feels like a stunt at first. But Williams especially makes her vulnerable, defiant Verdon come alive--a gladiator in a little black leotard. [5/12 Apr 2019, p.91]
Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Sam Rockwell is excellent as the passionate, manipulative, adulation-seeking Fosse. As Gwen Verdon, Michelle Williams is very nearly perfect. ... The bigger issue, and I’m not sure how much it could’ve been avoided, is that the “destructive artist and long-suffering helpmeet/muse” trope gets really freaking old.
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Apr 9, 2019
Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s all sumptuously produced but heavy spirited, and perhaps too immersive for its own good. It proves the miniseries’ Broadway-and-Hollywood-geek bona fides, but as it powers through the postwar era, it settles into a boozy, smoky, prestige cable groove that’s like a glitzier, slower, less thematically on-point cousin of Mad Men.
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Apr 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The average viewer unfamiliar with these stars and their joined and dueling legacies might struggle to find a way into the soul of “Fosse/Verdon,” though. But what can I say? Not everyone can dance or wants to. Those who can are advised to be patient and find the beat of this story, if only to bask in the performance of an outstanding actress due for a little more recognition.
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RogerEbert.comApr 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
When this limited series focuses on that relationship, it’s gripping, not least because Rockwell and Williams are remarkable performers doing unsurprisingly great work (Williams in particular is exemplary). And the series does, for the most part, keep its focus there. ... The problem is, Fosse/Verdon doesn’t need the razzle-dazzle, or at least, not this much.
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Apr 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Williams and Rockwell are fantastic (Patricia Arquette might not want to be clearing mantel space for her Escape at Dannemora Emmy just yet), and there are moments when Fosse/Verdon really sings. But it feels like too much talent and potential not properly presented in an eight-episode format.
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Apr 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
With little to no attempt at overture or background, viewers must sort themselves between those who’ve done the homework and those who haven’t. ... Thankfully, Fosse/Verdon can be savored entirely through Rockwell and Williams’s compelling pair of performances, which, as you would expect from two of the best actors working today, are achingly layered.
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Apr 5, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fosse/Verdon has some things going for it that held my interest even when the basic plot didn't. The scenes in which the two break out the dance steps for their productions, are fascinating, even if—maybe especially if—you don't give a tinker's dam about scissor kicks or jazz hands.
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The GuardianDec 3, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, I wished Fosse/Verdon was more focused, that it could bring all its fascinating parts into tighter alignment. But to those who appreciate the art of performance, the strongest piece of the series and the ingredient of entertainment about which it’s smartest, I say: Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!
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The Daily BeastApr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series is certainly competent, one collaboration that changed the face of American theater telling the story of another. But you’re looking for more of a Fosse shoulder roll, the extra tap in the time step, the unexpected contortion in the jazz number--the kinds of quirks that made Fosse and Verdon singular and unique. Their relationship was anything but by the book, and you wish this dramatization wasn’t afraid to go a little more off-script.
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Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The eight-part series is simultaneously in thrall to Fosse as a legend of musical theater and critical about his excesses. It’s a tricky high-wire to walk, and Fosse/Verdon tries to manage it by positioning Verdon as Fosse’s counterforce, the backward-and-in-high-heels feminine yin to his fiery masculine yang. In reality, though, her character is less equal and more reactive.
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Mar 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If you're familiar with Bob Fosse's choreography — obligatory "jazz hands!" jokes need not apply — and the who's who of '60s and '70s Broadway and can sing along to the entirety of Sweet Charity and Cabaret and Damn Yankees, there's a lot to enjoy here, starting with Rockwell and Williams. Beyond that, however, the early installments of Fosse/Verdon lean way too heavily on familiar genre tropes relating to self-destructive geniuses and the long-suffering women who love them. The love story of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon should open up as something bigger than just another well-cast prestige TV antihero saga. So far, it hasn't.
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Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The ambition of the piece rises to the level of those vaunted credits, if not necessarily their quality. In a chronologically scrambled tale of its titular subjects coming together, splitting apart, and forever driving one another to new creative highs, Fosse/Verdon mimics the former’s cinematic panache, while occasionally moving with the grace of the latter.
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Apr 8, 2019
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Fosse/Verdon is extremely watchable and totally fascinating. ... But it’s full of the shoddy and cruel compromises it purports to be about. It’s a show in which a grotesque man is made to seem less grotesque than he was, and a brilliant complicated woman seems less brilliant and complicated than she really was.
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Apr 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Fosse/Verdon is a claustrophobic series as opposed to an epic one. What's mostly missing is the thrill of opening night, the chorus line, the music, the whole glorious space of the theater. That's what made these two such vital meta-humans in the first place. ... Disappointing.
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