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Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
SlashfilmFeb 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
What makes "Hal & Harper" immediately compelling, beyond the sharp script and the magnificent performances from the entire ensemble cast, is a bit of a mystery that slowly and tragically unfolds. It's clear something unfortunate happened to this family a long time ago, but it's not made perfectly clear until a few episodes in. But even after that mystery is revealed another element of the show's execution adds a layer of both entertainment and emotion.
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What's Alan Watching?Oct 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Though Pen15 started out as an extended comedy sketch, it figured out quickly that it could tell genuine, poignant stories of childhood and adolescence, even if its girls were being played by grown-ass women. Hal & Harper starts in that more serious place, and does some powerful things there.
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Screen RantOct 16, 2025
IndieWireJan 29, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Hal & Harper” isn’t much of a TV show (a far stronger movie lurks somewhere within, perhaps even as a pair of movies told from the parents’ and kids’ perspectives, like a familial “Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”), but it does use its length to put forth an affecting family portrait as unafraid to embrace lasting anguish as it is to wear its heart on its sleeve.
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RogerEbert.comOct 17, 2025
Season 1 Review:
In its final hour, especially, “Hal & Harper” captures the bittersweet nature of change and how closing one chapter can help you open up another. But perhaps that’s evidence enough that there’s a solid three-star movie’s worth of concept here, rather than stretching it out to a loose, thin five-hour television series.
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