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Critic Reviews
Feb 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The show relies heavily on the strength of those three principals, and it has chosen wisely in Hendricks, Whitman, and Retta. ... Because Good Girls also operates like a character-driven family drama, the more tension-building aspects of the plot sometimes feels like they’re coming at you too fast.
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Feb 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Hendricks, Retta and Whitman give believably strong and collaborative performances as three people stuck in a dangerous mess. The supporting cast (especially Lillard) also provides a sound base from which the show can broaden its perspectives and subplots. While the show nimbly mixes action with you-go-girl snark, it occasionally stumbles in its fleeting and nominal nods to a feminist subtext, which should be self-evident and not needing an extra coat of empowerment to make it shine.
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Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Good Girls feels like a cable show squished into a network-shaped box, but it's still generally more than watchable thanks to a trio of leading ladies--Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman--who appear to be having a tremendous time playing funny, badass characters who are the focus of the show and not just wives or girlfriends.
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Mar 5, 2021
Season 4 Review:
The biggest issue remains the same: The main trio somehow still make the same glaringly stupid decisions they did when they were rookie criminals. ... What hasn’t slowed down this season, though, are the performances. Hendricks, Whitman, Lillard, and Hill have all perfected their characters.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Girls is good company, but I was kind of hoping for great. [19 Feb - 4 Mar 2018, p.15]
Feb 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Tone is everything for a show like Good Girls--it needs a strong, sure narrative pulse. It needs its own variation on the comic-thriller, its own new take on successful serious/humorous TV shows like Nurse Jackie or Weeds or (they wish) Breaking Bad. Note that all those shows were on cable and you’ve got the reason Good Girls ultimately fails: As a network show, it can’t go far enough, deep enough, into these women’s lives to make us root for them with anything like intensity. Good Girls needs to break bad much more badly than it’s allowed to as part of NBC’s lineup.
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Feb 23, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The show’s success owes primarily to the performances by the lead actors, who are so appealing that you might not remember they are actually committing crimes including theft, kidnapping, blackmail and transporting contraband across international borders. And that’s just in the first three episodes.
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UPROXXFeb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
A lot of individual pieces succeed, in part due to the versatility and appeal of the three leads--Whitman’s spent her whole career zipping back and forth between laughs (Arrested Development) and tears (Parenthood), and Hendricks (Mad Men) and Retta (Parks and Recreation) have both on their resumés, too--but too many scenes are at odds with one another.
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Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s a wan attempt to make points--good points--about sexism, inequality, patriarchy, and health care, stitched together with a story line that is seriously underdeveloped. The show, from Jenna Bans, is remarkably shallow, from the plot details to, more importantly, the central characters.
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