Long Story Short
Netflix | Release Date: August 22, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
89
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
NewsdayRobert LevinSep 8, 2025
Season 1 Review: It's a wonderful show. Don't miss it. Read full review
91
IndieWireBen TraversAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s 10-episode first season is an immensely moving, blisteringly funny temporal travelogue. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubJenna SchererAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: It plays out like a novel, leaping backward and forward across decades. And just as BoJack did when it premiered in 2014, Long Story Short feels like something entirely new. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s wildly funny, swinging, like “Bojack,” from deep emotion to loony tune slapstick. Read full review
90
TV GuideJen ChaneyAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: It's a macro piece of work, fueled by its attention to the micro. To achieve that combination in just ten 25-minute episodes, and to do it in a way that looks effortless even though it clearly was not, makes this one of the best TV shows of 2025. Read full review
90
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: A 10-episode Netflix comedy that plays more like a powerful short story anthology than a traditional season of laugh-inducing television. With his writing team, Bob-Waksberg jumps around chronologically in the lives of the Schwooper family, going almost randomly from character to character and time period to time period in each episode, telling self-contained stories that gain added resonance in the accumulation. Read full review
90
VarietyAlison HermanAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Though “Long Story Short” deals with universal experiences like family and loss, it goes about doing so in such a singular way it’s hard not to feel protective of an increasingly endangered species. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: “Long Story Short,” premiering Friday on Netflix, is the sweet, melancholy, satirical, silly, poignant, hopeful, sometimes slapstick cartoon tale of a middle-class Jewish family, told nonchronologically from the 1990s to the 2020s. For all its exaggerations — and unexaggerated portrayals of exaggerated behaviors — it is remarkably acute, and surprisingly moving, about relations between parents and children and brothers and sisters and about the passage of time and the lives time contains. Read full review
90
Rolling StoneAlan SepinwallAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Bob-Waksberg and his collaborators retain their impressive gift for devising ludicrous comic set pieces to go alongside the heavier material. Read full review
90
TimeJudy BermanAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Bob-Waksberg has an eye for humorous details that ring true. .... Yet Story also contains the universal, meaning-of-life-level insights that made BoJack a classic and his trippy, underacknowledged Amazon series Undone just as enthralling. Like those shows, it is fascinated—and moved—by our subjective experiences of relationships and of time, and how the stories we tell ourselves about those things make us the people we are. Read full review
90
Boston GlobeChris VognarAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s a minor creative miracle, a rapid-fire animated comedy with tremendous heart and a bold narrative structure that only enhances the emotional impact. Read full review
90
ColliderSamuel R. MurrianAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Long Story Short is an uncommonly entertaining and inventive dramedy that feels like a pure memoir even as it weaves in and out of the outlandish. It's a sturdy foundation of considerable depth. Read full review
80
Screen RantMary KasselAug 29, 2025
Season 1 Review: While Long Story Short hasn't yet come close to exploring all of its themes with depth, it takes the story pretty far in just ten tightly-packed episodes. For all their flaws, and likely because of them, it's easy to see yourself in the Schwoopers and root for them to push past the roadblocks that seem so insurmountable in their quest to connect. Read full review
80
DeciderJoel KellerAug 25, 2025
Season 1 Review: Long Story Short is a warm family comedy that will hit home to some degree to anyone who has a loving but complicated relationship with their families. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastJesse HassengerAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Yet like a novel with frustrating passages that is nonetheless difficult to put down, the sheer time-hopping scale of Long Story Short pulls you through its 10 episodes. Some of the unlikeliest conceits turn out to rank among the show’s best. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergAug 22, 2025
Season 1 Review: Long review short, Long Story Short might not hit with everybody who loved BoJack Horseman, but it’s full of small, immediate pleasures before delivering something potent and completely relatable by the end. Read full review
80
The GuardianStuart HeritageAug 21, 2025
Season 1 Review: On a minute-by-minute basis, Long Story Short is fantastically funny. .... The magic trick is the slow build of melancholy that gradually amasses beneath all this. Read full review
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