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Critic Reviews
Nov 23, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
A strange and very writerly and theatrical little show that hails, fittingly enough, from acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth (The Ferryman). That Mammals perhaps could have worked as well or better as a two-hour stage show, rather than in six, half-hour-ish installments, is a thoroughly worthy complaint. But after wondering at the purpose of the whole thing through its opening episodes, I quite enjoyed how its callbacks and bits of artificial structuring paid off.
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ColliderNov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
As for what it all ends up saying about modern relationships, it is more than messy in a way that it doesn’t fully pull together. Still, for all the ways Mammals bites off more than it can chew, the overall meal is worth sitting down for to observe who the fellow diners at the table of life truly are.
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Nov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Kreiling is sufficiently inscrutable as Amandine, one of those gorgeous, stubbornly mysterious seductresses that screenwriters can't seem to resist. Jamie is the kind of cuddly everybloke Corden excels at, though the comedian also exposes the core of his character's heartbreak with intriguing intensity. Alas, by the final half hour, there is little sympathy to go around for Jamie or any of the primary mammals in Mammals.
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The IndependentNov 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Butterworth’s script loses tautness, unfortunately, when focus shifts to Lue, Jamie’s gloomy sister. Sally Hawkins is among the most enchanting actors working today, but even she can’t imbue a loopy storyline that sees Lue imagining herself as Coco Chanel’s assistant – a coping mechanism for her ill-defined ennui – with emotional resonance. More successful are Mammals’ more straightforwardly surreal moments.
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Nov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Mammals” works to build comedy out of tragedy and sends its characters to hell and back en route to a hoped-for happy ending. It’s tricky to pull off, and Butterworth has a way of giving sentimentality a dry, cynical edge that doesn’t dispose you to care about his characters as much as you need to. But Corden and Kreiling help to compensate, along with Sally Hawkins as Jamie’s sister and Colin Morgan as Jamie’s brother-in-law.
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Nov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It is uncomfortably like a play, with episodes of speechifying and dialogue that sound more constructed than natural. ... One can imagine some version of this working just fine on the stage — and “Jerusalem” is longer than the whole of “Mammals” — but as television it wears a patina of inauthenticity. ... I’m sure many will find the series, directed by Stephanie Laing, compelling. Presented in cinematic widescreen, it is fundamentally an intelligent, adult entertainment, not without ideas.
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Nov 10, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Aims for provocation, but will likely bring many viewers closer to befuddlement. ... In place of narrative interest, the series introduces various leitmotifs, including a recurrent series of references to the animal kingdom. ... But this is, for six episodes’ worth of television, a bit thin. And the characters we meet don’t make the journey more pleasurable.
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