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| HBO | Release Date: October 27, 2019 |
Summary:
40-something Eve Fletcher (Kathryn Hahn) and her college freshman son Brendan (Jackson White) discover new things about themselves as they begin a new chapter in their lives apart from each other in this dramedy based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name.
Creator:
Tom Perrotta
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama
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Positive:
13
Mixed:
7
Negative:
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Oct 25, 2019
Oct 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot to love about this show, from the concision of its 30-minute episodes to an all-female roster of directors that includes Nicole Holofcener (Friends With Money) and Obvious Child‘s Gillian Robespierre. Hahn may well be typecast as a sexually frustrated woman, but she’s also the only actor I can think of who could do justice to such a simultaneously sweet and nasty role. Perrotta gives supporting characters surprising depth.
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Oct 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Though it’s only seven half-hour episodes, Fletcher gives the excellent ensemble substantive subplots about their own search for acceptance. White is a standout as Brendan ... The finale, which omits several of the developments in Perotta’s novel, feels bewilderingly abrupt for a show billed as a “limited series.” If ever a story cried out for another chapter, it’s this one.
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Sep 10, 2019
RogerEbert.com
Oct 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The ideas aren’t quite as fresh as the series seems to think, the journeys taken by the characters both too slow and too slight, and the filmmaking, while elegant and often alluring, not rich enough to wholly compensate for its other deficiencies. That’s not to say it’s not an engaging series. Each of its seven 30-minute episodes offers warmth, humor, and something bittersweet, and each manages to further endear the audience to at least a few of its characters.
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Oct 28, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Mrs. Fletcher, though, is missing an opportunity to say something profound about people and the inconvenient discrepancies between what they want and what they need. The series benefits from two remarkably deft performers, who paint outside the lines of their characters. (All seven episodes are directed by women, including the veteran Nicole Holofcener and the performer and writer Carrie Brownstein.) But in the end, I wanted more—more insight, more illumination, more interrogation of the differences between sexual freedom and freedom itself.
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Sep 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It's hard not to imagine the whole thing working better if it could perhaps last longer and develop its characters more naturally. ... Mrs. Fletcher feels both unfinished and rushed — the seven half-hour episodes failing to cement a story rather than just the feeling of a story.
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Dec 12, 2019
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