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| Prime Video | Season Premiere Date: November 11, 2022 |
Summary:
Jamie (James Corden) recruits the help of his brother-in-law Jeff (Colin Morgan) to find the answers regarding his pregnant wife's secret in this six-part dark comedy-drama series written by Jez Butterworth.
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama
Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: November 11, 2022
Nov 23, 2022
The Telegraph
Oct 7, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
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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Nov 10, 2022
“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 12, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
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
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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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: November 11, 2022
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Season 1 Overview