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Positive:
6
Mixed:
14
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Critic Reviews
Aug 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Mike” is neither hagiography nor character assassination. ... Any lingering doubts “Mike” will gloss over some of Tyson’s more monstrous actions are erased in the fifth episode, when the P.O.V. switches to that of Desiree Washington, the 18-year-old Miss Black Rhode Island who was raped by Tyson. ... Titled “Desiree,” is almost like a stand-alone short film, with Li Eubanks bringing empathy, humanity and a heroic spirit to her work as Ms. Washington.
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Aug 23, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Everything feels like a contact high from a recent late-night viewing of a remastered Goodfellas. ... There seems almost too much to explore about the psyche of the man Mike Tyson: there’s the price of celebrity, the personal cost of extreme success, how exploitative systems burn and churn their product.
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The GuardianAug 24, 2022
Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Mike Tyson's story hardly suffers from a lack of media exposure, so an effort to create a new limited series around the former heavyweight champ entered the ring facing a high bar. Despite a knockout performance by Trevante Rhodes, "Mike" doesn't consistently clear it, offering an episodic, occasionally too-irreverent tone in seeking to portray not just the boxer but those who passed through his orbit.
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Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Few scenes last long enough to gather any dramatic weight, and relationships are more suggested, or simply stated, than explored. That isn’t to say that some aren’t affecting — the actors see to that, though they must often work against the series’ stylistic breeziness. ... “Mike” does seem intent on ticking off the bullet points of Tyson’s life; its aspirations feel serious, even if the end product doesn’t always measure up.
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Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Sprinting from one big, defining moment to the next, punctuated with boxing scenes that are tertiary to the main tale, it’s hard to figure out what, if anything, the audience is supposed to glean from this immersive exhibit of “This is Your Life: Mike Tyson.” Nothing is revealed, only dramatized, which is certainly entertaining — but illuminating?
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Aug 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Tyson is portrayed by Trevante Rhodes (“Moonlight”), albeit in a thoroughly bewildering performance, and the recollections are dramatically recreated. ... Only five of the series’ eight episodes were made available for review and it is, frankly, impossible to know where it is going, if anywhere.
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Aug 19, 2022
The PlaylistAug 25, 2022
Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Beyond the hollow, uninspired treatment of its subject matter, Mike has the rhythm of a Wikipedia article cut up into little pieces and spliced hastily back together, so schematic and threadbare and depthless that it makes a strong argument to end the conventional Hollywood biopic for good, until someone can figure out how to rewrite and ultimately transcend the formula.
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The Daily BeastAug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s yet another case of style over substance, or at least it is until its fifth episode, when it focuses on the one human about whom it has a clear point of view: Desiree Washington (Li Eubanks). ... Yet in its first five installments, Hulu’s venture paints a portrait that’s less complicated than scattershot and superficial, revisiting Tyson’s rough upbringing and dully illustrating how it molded him into the ferocious fighter and off-the-rails individual he eventually became.
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Aug 23, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Mike is a Wikipedia entry punctuated by superficial sociological retrospection. Instead of taking us inside Mike Tyson’s head — a place none of us might actually want to spend time — Mike takes us further and further from any unmediated truths about Mike Tyson. It’s a well-acted, flatly told limited series that adds little to the conversation.
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Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
We’d rather see a bioseries about Mike Tyson where Tyson is intimately involved, because we’re pretty sure it will have a lot of subtleties about Tyson’s life that Mike lacks. His life deserves better than a series that treats him like a curiosity more than anything else.
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Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Just because there can be no objectively correct answer to these questions, doesn’t excuse Tyson biographers in any medium from engaging with them. Anything less is a glorified Wikipedia entry. Which is pretty much what the makers of Hulu’s eight-part docudrama Mike have created.
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