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Uncle BarkyMar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Rise doesn’t elevate to the heights of Friday Night Lights with either its storytelling or performances. But it’s heartfelt from start to finish while also offering an overall feel-good respite from television’s ongoing obsessions with “true crime” and all things Trump.
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Mar 13, 2018
Season 1 Review:
But as much as its sensibility and focus may dovetail with FNL, Rise is a different show, one that is sensitive, full-to-bursting with heart, and well-acted, but also one whose characters don’t immediately pop in the same way that the residents of Dillon, Texas, did.
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Mar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
What Rise has going for it is an honesty that prevents it from falling into the traps in which “Glee” frequently became stuck. None of its musical interludes come off as flippant, contrived or even all that corny, and the social conflicts the kids become embroiled in have a realism to them.
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Mar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Rise struggles to rise above its familiarity, conspicuously feeling like a "Glee"-"Friday Night Lights" mashup. That doesn't mean the NBC series -- from Jason Katims, producer of the latter series, as well as "Parenthood" -- doesn't have its merits, only that this show about high-school kids putting on a show plays like a revival, not an original.
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Mar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The performance cues you to see Lou as blinded, maybe a little ridiculous. But the show, especially early on, treats him as a heroic inspiration. This dissonance with his character makes Rise feel at times like someone remade “Waiting for Guffman” in the manner of “Dead Poets Society.” The young cast is good to terrific, and Rise is better the closer it gets to the kids’ stories.
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Mar 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Rise isn’t as heartbreaking as “Friday Night Lights” or as complex as “Parenthood” but it’s in an embryonic stage and has the potential to become the next big must-see entry on NBC’s schedule. Gillespie and Cravalho hold our interest, but it’s Perez who bears watching.
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Mar 8, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Unlike “Friday Night Lights,” Rise doesn’t organically arrive at its sweet revelations after building up to them deliberately. Rise is far more aggressive when it comes to wringing tears and pathos out of us, with a seeming checklist of juicy issues including alcoholism, trans acceptance, abortion, gay self-acceptance,
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Mar 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
NBC made all 10 first season episodes available to critics, and by the end, Rise felt very close to the show it aspires to be. Getting there, however, requires weathering at least half a season of choppy pacing, unconvincing character introductions and an ostensible hero who is far more unlikable than the show initially believes.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 1, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The message is fine; it's the messenger that you want to throttle. [5 Mar - 18 Mar 2018, p.12]
Mar 19, 2018
Season 1 Review:
I was simply ensnared by the siren song of Spring Awakening, those aching melodies of my early adulthood calling to me tantalizingly from out of the past. It’s powerful stuff, a testament to what great theater can do. And, I suppose, what decent TV can sometimes do, too.
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Mar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The writers rely too heavily on the cliches to develop characters, which leaves many of them underdeveloped or inconsistent. Radnor is such a good actor that it takes a while for us to realize his contradictory actions don’t really line up with what we think we know about Lou.
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UPROXXMar 12, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The heavy emphasis on Lou trying to encourage the students, the other teachers, and even the whole town to live up to the show’s title unfortunately takes away from Rise‘s strengths: namely, the kids themselves. In particular, Moana star Auli’i Cravalho and Damon J. Gillespie are everything the series needs them to be.
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