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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 6, 2020
Season 4 Review:
The jubilant reimagining of the vintage Norman Lear comedy has survived cancellation and is the better for it. [30 Mar - 12 Apr 2020, p.9]
Jan 4, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Well, they only had to remake a jillion TV shows from yesteryear to finally get one exactly, perfectly right. Not only is Netflix’s reimagined “One Day at a Time” a joy to watch, it’s also the first time in many years that a multicamera sitcom (the kind filmed on a set with studio-audience laughter) has seemed so instinctively comfortable in its own skin.
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Feb 6, 2019
Season 3 Review:
This is a formula that works and only takes the show to better and more emotional heights because it's done the character work to earn that reaction from the audience. This is a family you know and love, but you'll only enjoy getting deeper with them in its equally impressive Season 3.
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Feb 8, 2019
Season 3 Review:
ODAAT has long since perfected its mix of in-the-moment humor and issues-based storytelling, so we get great visual gags (think Dr. B posing as a matador for Lydia) and gentle teasing about baby queer Elena’s boundless enthusiasm--which culminates in the wearing of a “heart-butt” hat--along with heartfelt moments of discovery and vulnerability.
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IndieWireJan 26, 2018
Season 2 Review:
There are a couple of narrative turns that aren’t all that shocking, but what keeps them compelling is the depth of emotion associated with them. Executive producers Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce have ensured that the best aspects of the multi-cam format play these scenes as pure theater, bending the rules of reality at times for the greatest emotional catharsis.
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RogerEbert.comMar 24, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce’s heartfelt, refreshingly frank remake of Norman Lear’s sitcom sacrifices none of that frankness now that it’s moved on from the land of streaming; if anything, its presence on the network that “Schitt’s Creek” calls home is a much better fit. Even the presence of commercial breaks doesn’t diminish its charms.
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Feb 8, 2019
Season 3 Review:
Even though the season clocks in at around six hours in total, it feels more momentous than that, and in a good way. By grounding its laughs, its tears, and its storytelling in the ups and downs of a family, One Day at a Time avoids feeling gimmicky. ... The episodes themselves are beautifully constructed, too, with some of the best third acts in television today.
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The Daily BeastJan 26, 2018
Season 2 Review:
The show is more assured in its second season, even as it lacks the cohesive arc that the build-up to Elena’s quinces did in the first. In effect, that just frees characters up for their own pursuits. ... Suffice to say it will linger with viewers long after they see it, and may even get them to call their moms.
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Jan 12, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The show that is, both as entertainment and as cultural commentary, exceptionally good. The revived One Day at a Time is fantastic in part because of all the things that will typically make a sitcom fantastic: sharp, witty writing; charming, multi-faceted characters; plot lines that, in their seamless synthesis of the wacky and the serious, suggest life in all its messy complexity.
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Jan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Any viewer, regardless of political stripe, can [have] something to embrace in the Alvarez family, which is true of Lear’s oeuvre in general. By taking the classic family sitcom and making it feel vital and relevant, the show has invited us to connect to the truths we hold in common. Sometimes refreshing the familiar is precisely the entertainment we need.
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Yes, One Day at a Time is old-school enough to shoot live, with multiple cameras, but it's not one of those joke-punchline sitcoms in which everyone pauses while the audience cheers. Instead, we feel as if we're watching real people, who may fight noisily but come back together out of love.
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Jan 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
What could be predictable in its efforts to be topical, though, yields an abundance of pleasant surprises. That includes stretching out the party planning over the entire 13-episode season, and plenty of heartfelt moments, such as Penelope's tearful monologue about the strain of being a single mom, which is real and touching.
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Mar 24, 2020
Season 4 Review:
They are just as delightful and life-affirming as ODAAT has always been. If anything, because the episodes are a bit shorter to fit inside a traditional TV half-hour slot rather than a streaming service’s free-for-all, the show is a touch better. It’s tighter, and the jokes land faster.
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Mar 24, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Though none of the episodes features the emotional gravity that the show has worn on its sleeve, what is clear is that the writers are striving to provide as much continuity as possible. ... The fourth-season episodes also make clear that the core cast has become a perfectly calibrated comedy machine. Offered sharper jokes than ever before, the ensemble, performing in front of a live studio audience, is wondrously friction-free. (ODAAT has never been more consistently hilarious.)
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Mar 23, 2020
Season 4 Review:
“One Day at a Time,” in three episodes screened for critics, is fully intact in personnel, laughs and creative mission. The only things missing are a concession to the shorter run times of ad-supported TV: a few minutes off the average episode and, sadly, a sharply truncated version of the addictive theme song. What’s not diminished is the show’s commitment to its theme of representation.
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Feb 15, 2019
Season 3 Review:
Granted, sometimes those resolutions are a little pat (even if they’re rarely as neat as they were on the genre’s forebears). Sometimes they’re slightly saccharine. But sometimes they’re moving and immense and earned. What they register--unflaggingly, and with a ton of humor--is a faith in redemption.
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Feb 14, 2019TV Guide MagazineJan 31, 2019
Season 3 Review:
Funny, touching and comforting in its relevance for these fractious times. [4-17 Feb 2019, p.13]
UPROXXJan 4, 2017
Season 1 Review:
It feels even better that the new One Day is so good, and so vital--a throwback to an earlier era that also feels like it absolutely belongs in this one. ... Lydia winds up occupying a lot of the space that Schneider did in the original, which leaves the new hipster iteration a bit adrift. Grinnell is amiable and has his moments, but Schneider’s among the new version’s thinner characters.
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Mar 24, 2020
Season 4 Review:
Real-world context renders these resolutions reassuring rather than trite: No difficulty in the series is impossible to overcome, so long as the Alvarezes stick together. The promise of unconditional unity that permeates One Day at a Time comes through not only in grand apologies and lessons, but also in subtler interactions.
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IndieWireApr 17, 2020
Season 4 Review:
“One Day at a Time” treads uncertain waters as its success will be a benchmark for how other series can survive if they leave Netflix. The first three episodes all hold the flavor of the series, with its blend of humor and family love, but without the ability to see the entire season at once it is hard to determine if it can sustain itself without cementing a main arc right away.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review:
When it moves beyond easy cornball laughs to tackle tough issues like sexism, immigration and faith, this is as pungent as the current standard-bearer, CBS's Mom, and just as memorable. [2-15 Jan 2017, p.19]
Jan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The family is Cuban-American. The single mom, Penelope (the excellent Justina Machado of “Six Feet Under”), is ex-military. Hispanic culture is one of the show’s founts of humor--a painful one, in the case of Rita Moreno’s live-in grandma, Lydia. Otherwise, the show is recycled Norman Lear.
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