- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 26, 2014
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Maintaining this sort of rat-a-rat patter is no small feat, but the series gets off to such a promising start as to bode well for future installments. Moreover, the shifting pairings from episode to episode create a semi-serialized element that deftly builds off the groundwork laid the previous week, conjuring questions about who’s going to wind up with whom.
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Some twisty situations, some unexpected heart, some nuanced acting. Some serious single-camera potential.
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The show is funny enough, although you might wonder where it would go in a second season, but here's the dirty little secret of Mixology: It's intelligent and poignant as well as being entertaining.
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The characters are too uneven a group: Some of them you instantly overlook, like the olive in a cocktail. Even so, thus has potential. [3 Mar 2014, p.41]
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If you like--or like zoning out to--slick and shiny romantic comedies in the vein of New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day, Mixology is the show for you. But underneath the glossy, Ryan Seacrest-produced banner, this cocktail actually has some genuine sweetness and originality.
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The mix of characters works well and provokes a fair number of laughs.
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For every great line, there’s a dud.
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Mixology has sharp-witted lines that are genuinely funny--if at times highly sexist--rather than being gratuitous, clichés, or too-obvious puns.
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Troubled spirits: Mixology is drowning in them. Save yourself.
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The producers of this series, who include Ryan Seacrest, nonetheless are asking viewers to patiently sort through a lot of characters.
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So far, it's less funny than intriguing, a way to shake up the sitcom.... The series, the first scripted entry from Ryan Seacrest Productions, seems awfully superficial, at least in the first three episodes available for preview.
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Only intermittently funny but unceasingly crass.
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Mixology has a big enough ensemble that it can present the dating game from multiple angles, but almost all of the angles it picks are stale and predictable.
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While some of the flirtatious banter in these random odd couplings can be witty and even winsome, after a few rounds (I made it through three episodes), I was ready to close out my tab.
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There is something mechanical and arbitrary about the plotting, as if a mess of gears that didn't actually go together had been smashed into some semblance of a working order.
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At the end of the night, Mixology doesn’t have a lot of fizz.
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Despite an honest attempt at a fresh concoction, the results taste watered-down.
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A show with a reasonably clever conceit and strong cast but sunk, again, by weak, narrow-minded writing.
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The ones who aren't cruel, disloyal and sex-crazed are dim-witted and sex-crazed, which isn't much of an improvement.
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ABC is advertising that the show's creators wrote "The Hangover," but imagine that movie with the heart and charm removed, and you're left with these skeevy remains.
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Nearly every character is introduced in the most repulsive way possible and then the show tries to backtrack, sell the characters out and make it seem like they're all just marshmallows.
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ABC's new comedy Mixology is vile.
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Mixology is a tone-deaf, poorly executed, badly written series that, in the parlance of the show, kind of rapes comedy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 35
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Mixed: 7 out of 35
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Negative: 3 out of 35
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Apr 23, 2014
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Feb 28, 2014
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Apr 7, 2014