Happyish

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 26, 2015
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 39
  3. Negative: 8 out of 39
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  1. blazhennyi
    May 4, 2015
    9
    This show is of a piece with Transparent and Togetherness & Married - Self-aware middle class/mid-life existential crises ricocheting through family/friendships. The fantasy-fulfilment sequences are surprisingly good and the inspired casting of Coogan - I can't help but imagine this was a stroke of luck as Hoffman's presence would have overwhelmed- is a pleasant surprise. The 'profanity'This show is of a piece with Transparent and Togetherness & Married - Self-aware middle class/mid-life existential crises ricocheting through family/friendships. The fantasy-fulfilment sequences are surprisingly good and the inspired casting of Coogan - I can't help but imagine this was a stroke of luck as Hoffman's presence would have overwhelmed- is a pleasant surprise. The 'profanity' may jar in the American ear, but from my view, the humor is savvy and does not resort to toilet humor as implied by other reviews.… Expand
  2. Mike_M
    Apr 28, 2015
    8
    Two episodes in, it's a promising show. It's chock full of satire and insanity.
    It's too harsh for most people, which is where the low reviews are coming from.

    It's ballsy enough to have a main character who excessively hates certain aspects of culture and thinks he's above it all while he works for a major ad firm.
    You don't have to agree with everything he rants about to like the show.
  3. momus
    Jun 9, 2015
    8
    Happyish is not for everyone. At times it is pseudo-intellectual , cynical, and has that disillusioned arrogance towards the world one associates from a second semester college freshman. That being said a show like Happyish is needed on cable. It is witty, in your face cathartic fun that everyone needs. The existential crises that mark the shows center are not that of heady philosophyHappyish is not for everyone. At times it is pseudo-intellectual , cynical, and has that disillusioned arrogance towards the world one associates from a second semester college freshman. That being said a show like Happyish is needed on cable. It is witty, in your face cathartic fun that everyone needs. The existential crises that mark the shows center are not that of heady philosophy classes but those of commuting workers who have those moments in which nothing else is occupying them and thus are forced to face what life at such an age is. This show has yet to really find its pace but if it does, and tones back the eye rolling, it has potential to go the distance.… Expand
  4. msaluja
    Sep 13, 2015
    10
    Bring this show back! This is one of the wittiest shows that hit at the heart of anyone. You can relate to the characters and the acting is suberb! Please bring this show back, I am shocked that is gone after one season when it blows most shows away.
  5. Kaleeshi
    Nov 6, 2015
    10
    Brilliant and beyond the Freshman attitude with sharp dialogue, laying bare the nothingness
    of post post modernism and the loss of historic consciousness. Too bad the the overuse of
    the F word. It does not need it moreover that overuse draws attention away. Pensive silence at
    times would make a much stronger point. Yet, this show is the best out there in terms of helping
    critical awareness.
  6. Biology1
    Sep 27, 2020
    8
    Refreshing to watch a sitcom without canned laughter or predicatable puns. This isn't trying to make every other second a rib tickler, rather it is the kind of comedy that allows for reflection not just escapism.

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Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 31
  3. Negative: 5 out of 31
  1. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Vicki Hyman
    Apr 27, 2015
    42
    Hoffman was replaced by the talented British comic actor Steve Coogan, and I can't fault his performance. I can fault Auslander for writing Thom as a sanctimonious, pedantic, needling, incessantly outraged man of privilege and then expecting us to care about him.
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  2. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Apr 27, 2015
    50
    After three episodes, my head is bumping against my joy ceiling--with Happyish.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Apr 27, 2015
    40
    The show is very much about Thom and his "struggles," which are far too often presented in a series of high-decibel, gratuitously profane diatribes about the habits of others without benefit of anything remotely resembling personal perspective.
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