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Critic Reviews
Feb 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The show flexes its political correctness so hard, it forgets the most important part of TV drama is showing, not telling. That changes, for a few moments next week, when Ashley and Kristen are arrested and suffer far different ordeals from a booking officer. It’s a welcome rarity, and proof Ball can craft compelling drama, when he chooses to. Most of the characters on Here and Now self-medicate. You might feel the same urge after spending some time with this fractured family.
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Feb 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
I've watched nearly half of Here and Now, and I have no idea where it's going or how ambiguous the paranormal elements will turn out to be. ... And then there is Bacon, whose lovely, lightly inhabited, lively performance anchors the show in a more ordinary, yet highly individual reality.
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Feb 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
In the first four episodes, Here and Now suffers from wanting to cover too many topics. By episode four, the characters start to become less annoying, but that's asking viewers to be patient in a world where there are hundreds of other shows to watch. The main problem, in the early going, at least, is that "Here and Now" feels less like a drama with fully developed characters than an essay on The Way We Live Now, with doomstruck observations about the difficulties of finding harmony among races, cultures, genders, and so on.
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Feb 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Running parallel to the family Sturm und Drang is a mystery, possibly supernatural in nature, involving hallucinations on Ramon’s part that seem to connect him to his Iranian-American psychiatrist (Peter Macdissi). Reminiscent of the brain condition that gave Peter Krause’s character visions in “Six Feet Under,” this story strand provides some reason to watch, along with Mr. Robbins’s affable performance and the overall polish always supplied by Mr. Ball, who wrote the first two episodes and directed the first. It remains to be seen, though, whether there’s anything new about Mr. Ball’s new reality.
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IndieWireFeb 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Here and Now is filled with compelling performances, specifically from Macdissi and Hunter, but they can’t overcome an unnerving sense of artificiality. From the characters built around talking points to the family dynamic itself, the whole show feels written--overwritten.
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Feb 1, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Ambitiousness is not a problem with Here and Now. But there are definite issues in the four episodes HBO sent for review as the series tries to figure out, without much success, just what show it wants to be. ... When Here and Now focuses on Ramon (and Henry) or the Shokrani family, it has extra depth.
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Feb 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Like so many prestige dramas right now, then, Here and Now lacks a strong reason for any of its individual episodes to exist. The show is just a chronicle of stuff that happens to this family, with a vague promise that something important will happen somewhere along the line.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 1, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Laughably self-important. [5-18 Feb 2018, p.11]
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