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Positive:
17
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The chemistry among the cast members pushes this series from good to exceptionally funny in an endearing, dysfunctional sort of way. They capture the absurdity of rebooting a show that has no business returning and turn that disaster into great comedy in the process.
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Sep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Semantics aside, Reboot is still a very funny show that hits hard at what’s wrong with everything from Peak TV culture (Krista Marie Yu plays Elaine, a Hulu executive who does her job by metrics and spreadsheets) to legendary sitcom writer hackery (“he lost his job because he falls asleep whenever he hears a bell!” offers up a TV writer played by former Hill Street Blues actor George Wyner), and proper workplace conduct in a post-MeToo era.
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Sep 20, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Everyone is clearly having fun, and it’s just exciting to watch a capable cast deliver unflinching dialogue. (Who knew?) The biting insights into Hollywood’s business strategies are much appreciated. Even if you’re not a fan of the meta approach, Reboot still makes a striking first impression.
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Sep 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It never goes as hard or gets as dark as, say, BoJack did… but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, either. The lighter touch makes it an easier watch, and it does deliver more laughs per minute than most anything out there these days. A TV comedy that’s actually funny — what will they think of next?
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TV Guide MagazineSep 23, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Their neurotic antics are enjoyable, but many of my favorite scenes are set in the multigenerational writers’ room where Hannah and original producer Gordon (Paul Reiser) bring together the woke and the reawakened. Not since The Dick Van Dyke Show and 30 Rock has pitching jokes generated such a geyser of genuine humor. [26 Sep - 9 Oct 2022, p.5]
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ColliderSep 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Like Step Right Up’s writing room, Reboot occasionally seems torn between two ideals: the standard world of sitcoms, and an attempt to do something new and fresh. But like that writer’s room, the show eventually finds an equal balance that will likely please both fans of Levitan’s more standard sitcom work and something that takes a few solid shots at the television industry in general.
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Sep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Reboot is a show that is going for actual, out-loud laughs and very often gets them — thanks to clever writing, a crackerjack cast and a cheerful willingness to go for the broad humor of, say, an avalanche of popcorn (albeit with a knowing wink). If it’s neither as cutting nor as heartwarming as it could be, that is, in a way, part of its charm. ... Finding and maintaining that balance does sometimes prove a challenge, however.
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The Daily BeastSep 19, 2022
Sep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Reboot” benefits from a great cast – Judy Greer and Paul Reiser are among the show’s series regulars – and some funny moments. But occasionally it feels like there’s something missing. ... Still, “Reboot” has enough going for it that I’ll stick with it to see how it develops in later episodes.
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The GuardianSep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Reboot is at its best when it takes shots at a business that could withstand more of them, leaning into the meta spiral of a show about a show. ... Handling the meta-sitcom is trickier; Reboot struggles to differentiate its fictional stars from the caricatures they play, on Step Right Up and off.
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Sep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
In the end, Reboot seems caught between wanting to skewer the old ways and desperately missing their simple satisfactions. There are twists in the series opener that came as a genuine surprise, but nothing is so messy or nuanced that it can’t be settled by a good punchline. The show wants to have its meta-cake and eat it too.
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The PlaylistSep 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
At its core, it’s about a program within a program that’s being pushed and pulled between old-fashioned comedy and a more progressive brand of humor, and there’s a meta reading of “Reboot” itself wherein it’s doing the exact same thing. This is interesting on paper. Sadly, that doesn’t make it funny.
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Sep 19, 2022
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