Happy Face

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Season 1
Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Mar 18, 2025
    30
    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.