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Critic Reviews
Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While it’s hard to imagine rooting for Cusack’s dour, womanizing Rob 20 years later, this revision works. ... What’s even more satisfying is how a change in casting shifts the meaning of Hornby and Frears’ stories. ... In a blow against essentialism, these characters are multifaceted human beings before they’re representatives of their gender, race or sexual orientation.
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IndieWireFeb 14, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Viewers expecting a tight, compact album might be pleasantly surprised to see this season take on a more open-ended Spotify playlist feel, designed to keep playing and be enjoyed knowing that the end is still far in the future. At times, it’s an eclectic mix of ideas and execution, but there’s a great amount of satisfaction in just letting it all wash over you.
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Feb 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
By the time Episode 5 rolls around, with the great Parker Posey guest-starring as a kooky artist looking to unload her cheating husband’s mega valuable record collection, High Fidelity has established a funky, unassuming charm all its own. It’s kind of like your favorite local dive bar: nothing too flashy, but a reliable combination of fun people, a killer jukebox and good vibes.
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Feb 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series sets up myriad intriguing possibilities and wows with enough stellar soundtrack songs and pop culture-laden dialogue to keep us on the hook for more. By the final episodes, the previous High Fidelity seems less like a copied original and more like an inspired springboard to enable a more engaging character to improve her life and herself.
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Feb 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Yes, she’s insufferable, and yes there are times I had to press pause from second-hand embarrassment to yell at the screen, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING ROB?”, but as a woman of color who once cried over the mere thought of someone taking her Led Zeppelin records post-breakup, it was nice to feel seen for once. Besides, even in her problematic self-indulgence, there’s something in Kravitz’s portrayal of Rob that makes you feel for her.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
With Kravitz stepping into the role of Rob, now a queer black woman who owns a record store in Brooklyn, High Fidelity becomes a much more sincere project. By the very nature of the generational shift to millennials – and the change in leads – Hulu's adaptation has nary an ironic bone in sight.
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Feb 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Charming. ... Hulu’s High Fidelity does, refreshingly, correct the exclusionary spirit that went with the original’s lack of diversity. Yet crucially, the series retains the assurance that music preferences reflect something individual, ineffable, soul-deep, and in need of sharing.
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Feb 13, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“High Fidelity”—both then and now—is about the timeless, vicarious narrative charms of any secret society/gang/club/superhero team. The insiders are outsiders and eccentrics who possess superpowers. In “High Fidelity,” the superpowers are in their ears. Their consequent oddities and obsessions only make them more endearing. Ms. Kravitz is particularly so, most of the time. ... If nothing else, the show drops its needle on a certain millennial hipster groove, without losing touch with its Gen X ancestor.
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Feb 13, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s a slow-growing pleasure that does justice to them bones. ... After the rocky first half of the season, Kravitz becomes a fine lead, with a winning mixture of hipness, sadness, and loyalty. She is a woman who can be a creep — but because she knows it, she radiates the possibility that she can change. Chill, quietly charismatic, she ultimately makes for a great hang.
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Feb 12, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In addition to Kravitz’s performance, the most enjoyable elements of “High Fidelity” are the music (good luck getting “Come on Eileen” out of your mind after the first episode), the glamorized sense of place (Brooklyn comes off as a gentrification postcard), and the R-rated but totally entertaining back-and-forth between Rob and her record-store employees, Simon (David H. Holmes) and Cherise (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
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Feb 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Just when it seems like Rob might be a little too cool for school, she wins us over with her childlike eating habits (she’s forever spooning “meals” from a bowl) and her openness about how silly and stupid and irrational she has sometimes behaved in the name of love.
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Feb 19, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Hulu's "High Fidelity" is probably going to annoy viewers who resent the notion of shoving a woman into a character written to be man on principle. Removing that from the equation, it does spur some insightful ruminations around how much emotional weight we place on music and any adopted cynical stances one might around what is cool and allowed and what is verboten. Some of it plays out with the episodes but I was most aware of it within my internal dialogue.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The scenes that serve this theme [come to terms with the serial failures of her romantic life] are fine, and often funny. ... The romantic narrative is less interesting than Rob’s scenes with Simon and Cherise, or their scenes without her. Randolph is the show’s stealth star, as Jack Black, in the analogous part, was in the film. ... But it’s all well-played, good-looking, enjoyable modern light entertainment, with a side of social satire. I’m inclined to recommend it.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The story needs more help than Kravitz can give it, leaning on a fairly simple and uninteresting sort-of-love-triangle (she misses her ex, who is now engaged to someone else) that would not exist without coincidence and fairly unbelievable behavior on the part of all parties. ... Sometimes, though, this (despite it all!) very watchable show snaps into being something more.
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Feb 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“High Fidelity” has always concerned itself with nostalgia for youthful heartbreak, but, this time around, the mists of memory haze obscure the hero. The show unfolds in some atemporal nostalgia zone; Rob seems like a middle-aged person’s idealized view of a heartbroken young person. The song remains the same, but the playback device is somehow obsolete.
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Feb 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Nearly every major decision, from the premise to the casting to the grueling callbacks to the film, is a fumble. The show isn't just unnecessary; it's a largely soulless cover that doesn't understand what made the original distinctive. Perhaps most dispiritingly, the marvelous wit and poignancy of the two episodes whose storylines appear to be wholly invented by the show's writers suggest that a great deal of talent was wasted on trying to give life to a seemingly DOA concept.
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