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Critic Reviews
Apr 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The laughs-per-minute rate is high, though, so the worst you can say about Great News is it's merely pretty good. [28 Apr/5 May 2017, p.99]
IndieWireSep 28, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Great News may never be the successor to “30 Rock” many hoped it would be, nor the second coming that its sophomore season bluntly tries to take by force, but there are enough laughs to match the talent involved. The well-utilized cast is charming, the writing a bit sharper, and, oddly enough, the arcs feel more original.
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Apr 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The writing is sassy enough to make you indifferent to the show’s source material, including, of course, the Robert De Niro movie “The Intern.” Martin dominates every scene she’s in and, in truth, the double Tony winner’s acting style, honed by multiple Broadway roles over the years, is so broad, only a powerful ensemble cast like this one could even share the screen with her.
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Apr 20, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The set and the substance feel a little dated, and the show leans into that ‘80s aesthetic with a bit of nostalgia that is both disorienting and a little comforting (much like going back to visit your parents’ house after moving out). That being said, once the show settles into its rhythms, there’s a lot of humor to go around.
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Apr 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Once the show discovers what it really has in its holster (a biting rivalry between Chuck and Nicole Richie’s Portia, for example), it finds its comedic stride with some truly inspired writing. Sadly, though, it never quite rises up to the levels of original insanity it learned from its predecessors or manages to surpasses them.
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Apr 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The cast combines for a few laughs each week, and outside of the stray fart or feces joke, little of it is bad enough to make you cringe. But goodness, this is Andrea Martin we’re talking about. Surely some network can find something better for her than "not terrible."
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