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Critic Reviews
Apr 29, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s not an easy thing to use your own terrifying experiences with mortality to feed the engines of comedy and pain, but Bayer is sharing that through Joanna and the authenticity of her experience makes all the difference in shaping character into a flawed human that we want to root for even when she’s done a very bad thing.
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Apr 28, 2022RogerEbert.comApr 25, 2022
Apr 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
While the show is no big deal, it handles the psychological and farcical ramifications of Joanna’s dilemma with a sensitivity that gives the sitcom setups an emotional kick you wouldn’t necessarily expect. Some of this has to do with Bayer’s performance — she nails Joanna’s blend of arrogance and abashment with an ace sketch comic’s facility.
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The GuardianJul 21, 2022
Season 1 Review:
On paper, this Paramount+ sitcom is a tough sell. But, overall, it works. There might not be abundant belly laughs (though there are often great throwaway lines, such as assistant Darcy begging the CEO for time off to attend Graydon Carter’s barn warming on Martha’s Vineyard), but Bayer – on whose own story Joanna’s is based – keeps our sympathy throughout.
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Apr 29, 2022
Season 1 Review:
[Bayer's] comedy chops here easily remind you of how she shined behind the Weekend Update desk with in-over-their-head characters such as Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy or flailing meteorologist Dawn Lazarus. ... The pilot, directed by Michael Showalter, has an even slower burn than say, Search Party, which he co-created.
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Apr 28, 2022
Apr 29, 2022
Season 1 Review:
By the third episode, I had come to the sad conclusion I didn’t want to spend much more time with these people. Not because they’re unlikable, as we’ve seen some great comedies through the years about folks who are mostly awful. (Hello, “Seinfeld.”) It’s because they’re not all that interesting.
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Apr 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Barely likable supporting characters and a tendency toward juvenile humor make the first two episodes a hard sell. But the show warms up enough in the third episode that we can envision it becoming an amiable workplace comedy, somewhere on the sweetness scale between “30 Rock” and “Ted Lasso.”
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