| Paramount+ | Season Premiere Date: March 20, 2025 |
Summary:
Melissa (Annaleigh Ashford) investigates whether a man on death row is innocent of the murder her father (Dennis Quaid) committed as the Happy Face Killer in the drama series inspired by the autobiography "Shattered Silence," written by Melissa Moore with M. Bridget Cook Moore and the Happy Face podcast.
Genre(s):
Drama, Suspense
Season 1 Episodes
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Mar 20, 2025
The Independent
Mar 19, 2025
Screen Rant
Aug 28, 2025
Mar 17, 2025
The show pushes hard for the audience to feel a certain way but only effectively does so in a few scenes with honesty, like when Melissa and her brother (played by Philip Ettinger) confide in each other or during some of Elijah’s story. The rest of Happy Face is too dramatized and simply gets lost in an effort to stand out.
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Mar 18, 2025
Mar 20, 2025
The central push-pull between Melissa and Keith. That dance is captivating. .... But the messiness of their relationship sits uneasily alongside the straightforward search for evidence to free Elijah, and can lose its grip when broadened from a two-hander to a broader ensemble. “Happy Face” intrigues, yet its form can’t quite sync up with its function.
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Mar 18, 2025
Paramount+’s Happy Face vacillates between sanctimonious and hypocritical, lashing out at the exploitative tropes of true crime and then embodying the genre’s worst instincts, with nothing especially perceptive to offer as compensation. It’s a show that’s at least paying lip service to doing something interesting, but there are too many intellectual hurdles it can’t clear.
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Air Date: March 20, 2025
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