Rutherford Falls

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Season 1
  • Network: Peacock
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 22, 2021
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
5.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. CaptainMarvel
    Jun 29, 2021
    8
    Really enjoyed it. Funny characters well played without the meanness order awkwardness of some "comedies".
  2. geewah
    Sep 22, 2022
    5
    A rather mundane and dull affair that has a few funny moments, but for the whole most of the gags seemed rather forced and predictable.
  3. xihih23016
    May 17, 2021
    1
    The representation is excellent but literally everything else is some combination of underwritten, emotionally unintelligent, and faux-progressive. Almost every dialogue exchange and nearly every plot development seems to have been written by someone who is not just writing their first episode of television but their very first full sentence. If this was a show about nothing, this would beThe representation is excellent but literally everything else is some combination of underwritten, emotionally unintelligent, and faux-progressive. Almost every dialogue exchange and nearly every plot development seems to have been written by someone who is not just writing their first episode of television but their very first full sentence. If this was a show about nothing, this would be a nothing problem. But Rutherford Falls is a show that wants to be about America's troubled history, Native American erasure, and a number of other big subjects. It's then disappointing and galling that the show amounts to little more than "A White Man's Journey Towards Being Less Terrible Thanks to Less Narratively-Important People of Color."… Expand

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    May 5, 2021
    80
    Deft. ... As satire, “Rutherford Falls” is gentle rather than lacerating — even demons may be good people in Schur’s comic cosmology, may even be Ted Danson — and the story more personal than political. ... By not turning people into talking points, Ornelas, Schur and Helms leave their characters free to become who they are in complicated ways, rather than what they are in obvious ones — to stand for themselves.
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  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    May 5, 2021
    70
    Where the sitcom shines — and, like early “Parks,” shows a promising upward trajectory — is in fleshing out the Minishonka community. ... The show’s biggest problem is structural, but it’s fixable. “Rutherford Falls” treats Nathan as a colead, but really Reagan is its center. She’s at the fulcrum of all the tensions, and Schmieding is an out-of-the-box charismatic star.
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  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Apr 23, 2021
    70
    Gentle but knowing satire about cultural appropriation. [26 Apr - 9 May 2021, p.7]
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