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Critic Reviews
What's Alan Watching?May 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Rooster stumbles at times in depicting the clash of generations, ideologies, and sexual urges on a college campus... It sets up various story and character ideas that it doesn't always have interest in following, and going back and forth on how ridiculous it finds both its setting and people on different sides of the student/faculty divide. But it also has a generosity of spirit, a warmth, and a trust in its performers, that evokes the charms of much of Lawrence's other work.
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The GuardianMar 9, 2026
Season 1 Review:
This is television for grownups. Younger viewers will roll their eyes at the lazier jokes about the generational divide (usually involving students’ hypersensitivities and mental health diagnoses) and it would indeed have been better if these could have been more focused. On the other hand, theirs is the world, so let us have these 10 half-hours, eh? Carell may not be the hero you need, but he is ours.
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Mar 5, 2026
Season 1 Review:
If the series can build on the momentum it builds here, “Rooster” may hit a rarified air typically reserved for the best shows, one which feels like an accurate portrait of the ups and downs of life, rendered in both comedic and tragic clarity. That, combined with a tremendously compelling central dynamic thanks to the charm and charisma of Carell and Clive, makes the trip back to school well worth it.
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Mar 5, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Though the series strikes the creator’s signature balance of humor and emotional depth, Rooster has yet to rival Shrinking, Ted Lasso, or The Office. That’s not to say the six of ten episodes made available for review weren’t a genuinely fun ride; rather, it’s a testament to the incredible heights we’ve seen both men reach.
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Mar 5, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Mostly, though, Archie’s indiscretion serves as a conduit to character comedy about well-meaning screw-ups trying to make good. The ensemble is large and charming. .... The only remarkable thing about Rooster, really, is that it treats a campus rocked by teacher-student sex as just another backdrop.
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Mar 9, 2026The TelegraphMar 9, 2026
Season 1 Review:
If you’ve never seen Carell in anything, you will find Rooster charming and quite funny. Even if you have, you could put this series on in the background of whatever else you’re doing, and it’s perfectly pleasant. But it could be so much more if the writers weren’t clearly trying to create another Ted Lasso, with which Rooster shares a writer.
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