- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 4, 2022
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It might also have been better if they talked less, too – writer Abe Sylvia seems to have got carried away with country lyrics to the point where lines as corny as “Fast is the only speed I know. I’ll take you any way you want to go” somehow made it into the mouths of actual people. Much better was when the camera lingered on the two leads neither singing nor spouting folk wisdom, but instead evincing a fierce chemistry.
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With a six-part format, George & Tammy brings a more expansive twang to the fractious lives of country legends Wynette and George Jones, in a solid if unspectacular showcase for crooning stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon.
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Shannon and Chastain give it their all, belting out their own vocals during full renditions of the couple’s country classics. They capture an arresting chemistry — a combination of big-screen bravado and raw sexual attraction rarely seen in modern entertainment — but on their own, they can’t help but repeat familiar beats in what amounts to a stretched-out movie covering the couple’s most well-known moments.
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“George & Tammy” never takes on a coherent shape. It’s a greatest-hits album of Jones and Wynette anecdotes, some presented with style and some perfunctory or maudlin, strung together between songs. ... Whenever Chastain or Shannon is onscreen, however, the series is likely to hold your attention, even when nothing particularly interesting is going on.
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George & Tammy is a lavish soap opera; a crooning, booze-soaked Nashville melodrama. Many of us might be surprised that Shannon and Chastain expended their considerable talents on such thin material. Perhaps the only fans that George & Tammy will find, then, are the people who were already enraptured by its namesakes.
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While it nails the fundamental music-biography beats, it can’t find the spark or soul that characterizes the best country songs.