- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 8, 2026
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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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The show manages to be both intermittently amusing and highly disposable.
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As good as these actors are, they can’t quite overcome the fact that “Rooster” is tonally too shifty to effectively work.
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Unmoored and unpolished, “Rooster” doesn’t quite clear the bar.
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Carell still has small-screen charisma to burn, and the show is charming in an insubstantial way. But it’s also forgettable, lacking both the hangout appeal of a classic sitcom and the richness that might sustain a yearslong storyline.
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Aside from the occasional choice gag, its geniality dampens its silliness.
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Apart from some indistinct secondary characters, the cast is largely game, but the banter-heavy dialogue can grow stale, especially when the jokes have a habit of undercutting any emotional heft.
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“Rooster” is a mess, but Carell is never less than entertaining in it. .... “Rooster” remains amorphous, though; it tries for a mix of naturalistic prestige comedy and rapid-fire, stylized sitcom and just misses both.
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It’s a show with an excess of underdeveloped identities, rather than a lack of identity, spackling over its poorly fused story elements with a sense of humor that’s sometimes appealing and frequently desperately hacky.
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Unfortunately, “Rooster” is full of predictable characters and circumstances, adding up to a lackluster narrative.
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