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Critic Reviews
Nov 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Is it groundbreaking? No. But the story is solidly enough built to distract from certain annoying contrivances of sitcom-making that would be less present today, perhaps. Reiser and Hunt retain an amiable chemistry, and Hunt — too little seen in recent years — especially makes a compelling case for her continued stardom. She makes neuroses, then as now, seem less like a curse and more like a side effect of thoughtfulness.
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Nov 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The new Mad About You is pretty much the same as the old Mad About You. It’s agreeable, familiar, a little meh. Reiser is an expert at comically charming befuddlement; his cozy chemistry with Hunt remains intact 20 years later. As for the Oscar winner, she’s even allowed to act occasionally.
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Nov 13, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Mad About You is essentially the same show now as it was when it existed in the 1990s, only now Paul and Jamie are older. ... The revival's biggest offense is simply feeling like a relic of a different time. And it doesn't help matters that it appears to be recycling plot points from the original series.
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Nov 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
[Helen Hunt and Paul Paul Reiser are] both on the same page, without often being laugh-out-loud funny, for the second half of the season's first binge-friendly stretch of six episodes and there's some enjoyment in watching that. ... It's pretty middle-of-the-road stuff.
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Nov 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The later episodes aren’t hugely funny — I felt something resembling a laugh from a spit-take Hunt does in an episode featuring the return of Paul’s mother Sylvia (Cynthia Harris) — but they’re pleasantly nostalgic in a way the frantic earlier ones never quite achieve. It’s about what you might have hoped for from a Mad About You revival, even if the whole thing feels unnecessary.
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Nov 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Mad About You cultists will be enthralled—well, pleased—about the presence of some of the old friends, relatives and sidekicks, including John Pankow and Richard Kind. Not present, alas, is the spacey and inept waitress Ursula, so popular in first go-round that she elevated Lisa Kudrow into a co-starring role on Friends. How long do we have to wait for a reboot of that?
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