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Critic Reviews
Feb 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately Here and Now takes great pains to fulfill its title as a drama, albeit a bad one with inadvertent overtones of assigning a magical otherness to the non-white characters in its cast, Ramon in particular. A bigger disappointment, though, is the fact that it’s a generally well-acted hour with a few characters worth following. ... Spending several episodes with it made me want to scream "Get out."
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Feb 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The series eschews any of the qualities that might have made its kind of overreaching portrayal redemptive--the humor of caricature, the illuminating bite of satire, or any empathy worth mentioning. An arranged marriage of “This Is Us” and “Stranger Things,” Mr. Ball’s program plays as straightforward drama, albeit one that exploits America’s already caustic stew of the woke, the overtly racist and the great mass in between. It’s not even deliberate parody. It’s inadvertent cartoon.
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Feb 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The result is an insufferable ten-episode HBO series that’s trying very hard to speak to the mood of our times but ultimately does not have anything significant to say about it. ... It seems pretty clear that we would be better off spending that present on something other than watching Here and Now.
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RogerEbert.comFeb 7, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s a domestic drama with unbelievable dialogue, which just makes it as hollow as anything I’ve seen on television in a long time. It’s a show with almost no subtlety and yet almost no plot--which is almost a feat within itself. The real tragedy is that there are beats that are likable--I enjoyed most of the growing relationship between Ramon and Henry, because it felt genuine, but so much of Here and Now does not.
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