Lady Dynamite

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: May 20, 2016
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 94 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 94
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 94
  3. Negative: 22 out of 94
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  1. Shihabzhere
    Jul 12, 2016
    0
    You folks have good stuff to say about this particular show ? I don't understand how that is possible at all. I don't mean to be critical or rude. How could anyone sit through any episode of this. It isn't 1995 anymore where there's a lack of variety in TV shows. Why would anyone produce this keeping what audience in mind ? And again why would you all promote this show ? That's the mostYou folks have good stuff to say about this particular show ? I don't understand how that is possible at all. I don't mean to be critical or rude. How could anyone sit through any episode of this. It isn't 1995 anymore where there's a lack of variety in TV shows. Why would anyone produce this keeping what audience in mind ? And again why would you all promote this show ? That's the most baffling part for me to digest.
    This is my first review on Metacritic. I come here for solid advice for over a year so that I get proper guidance for how I want to spend my precious TV watching moments of my very busy life just like most common people. I couldn't stand and not say anything about how oddly this show has been rated. This is really alarming.    … Expand
  2. Skeletor71
    May 23, 2016
    1
    I don't get the rave reviews AT ALL! I couldn't even finish the episode, because of all the cringeworthy, unfunny bits. Maybe I just don't get what they're trying to accomplish here.

Awards & Rankings

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#19 Best TV Season of 2016
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#82 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    May 25, 2016
    80
    I didn’t laugh very frequently watching Lady Dynamite, but I was never less than absorbed by it.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    May 23, 2016
    80
    With the confidence of a show that knows exactly what it wants to be--and with the titanic Bamford anchoring every scene with incredible empathy and generosity, Lady Dynamite manages to stand out amid the constantly churning fray of television by being entirely, proudly itself.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    May 20, 2016
    100
    It is cheerful, dark, surreal, profane, aspirational, meta-fictional and packed with people playing versions of themselves or other people entirely (or playing versions of themselves playing other people entirely); it plays with visual and verbal puns, with moods and acting styles and moves around in time and dimension. And while these are elements of many modern comedies--it owes something to "It's Garry Shandling's Show," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "30 Rock," "The Sarah Silverman Program," Hurwitz's "Arrested Development" and the cracked spirit of Adult Swim--I have never seen them assembled in quite this way, or with quite so much gusto.
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