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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineApr 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Hard to imagine anything bringing more happiness than Schmigadoon! [24 Apr - 7 May 2023, p.6]
ColliderApr 5, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Schmigadoon! really thrives in Season 2 with its approach to the premise. ... The true strength of the second season is how thoughtful it manages to be, even while the absurdity and comedy from the first season are still present. With Key and Strong taking the lead, it's hard for it not to.
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Apr 4, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It’s just the right length. Six, not eight or 10, half-hour episodes that breeze by quickly, all packed with fun. And even though it’s busy and filled with eye-candy and distractions, the series never loses sight of the central relationship. Strong and Key play their roles with just the right blend of absurdity and bemused observance.
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ColliderJul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Schmigadoon! takes the mini-arc of a scene-into-song — words no longer suffice so one must explode into song — and expands it out into beautiful, staggering, slow-motion detail. It's a triumph of craft, character, and courage. It's a show I can't recommend enough, a strange bird I hope never stops singing.
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Mar 31, 2023
Season 2 Review:
While all of the returners bring their musical-theater chops, Krakowski and Tveit end up shining the most. ... The splendid scenic design and costume design bring in details that will make eagle-eyed fans squeal with glee, too. nd as for the music: After picking up an Emmy for season one’s “Corn Puddin’,” Paul once again skillfully captures the essence of the genre and time period here.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 20, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Jubilant and wonderfully clever. ... Schmigadoon! is such a delight I never wanted to leave. [19 Jul - 1 Aug 2021, p.6]
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Jul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
An irresistible original musical romcom that gleefully mocks the thing it loves. Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key lead a cast of Broadway luminaries (shoutouts to Aaron Tveit, Ariana DeBose, Ann Harada and Marin Short) in a series that throws so many woke and witty curveballs that even musical haters will be laughing too hard to resist.
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Jul 6, 2021RogerEbert.comApr 5, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The emotional stakes aren’t as deep as last season for Josh and Melissa or anyone, but the writing is usually quick on its feet. “Schmigadoon!”, or “Schmicago!” as it is then branded in the opening credits, is also a return for those who made the series so charismatic.
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Apr 3, 2023iDec 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The Joshs of the world will likely balk at the very idea of Schmigadoon! – after all, 2021 isn’t short of a musical (In The Heights, Dear Evan Hanson and West Side Story are just a handful of this year’s cinematic offerings). But for us Melissas, it’s an exuberant, escapist slice of heaven.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Schmigadoon!” has its moments of good honest fun, but it is more inclined toward ironic and satirical fun — it’s in on its own joke and routinely mocks its own corniness. (There’s even a song called “Corn Puddin’,” which, like all the other songs on the show, is pretty darn good.) The vibe works, particularly the jabs at classic musicals’ rigid sexism.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The show goofs on the conventions of the genre, but it’s an affectionate goof, one that makes fun of the sexism and vapidity of the old shows while simultaneously delivering top-notch and well-shot choreography and plenty of catchy schmaltz. ... It’s fun to suss out all the allusions — but if you’re not a student of Broadway musicals, you will most likely get a kick out of the witty songs anyway.
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The Daily BeastJul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Whatever nostalgic, unattainable utopia those old musicals portrayed, Schmigadoon!—as sharp, fearless, and at times even crude as you’d imagine from a Lorne Michaels production—imagines a new one. And, for the love of all the wind that comes sweeping down the plain, it’s so delightfully weird.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Schmigadoon! has no pointy edges with which to skewer anything. Even its harshest angles are eventually wrapped in a warm, four-part harmony embrace. It is a musical pastiche, yes, but it’s mostly a bowl of corn puddin’ — wholesome and familiar and maybe a dash too sweet.
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RogerEbert.comJul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Schmigadoon!” is just about as entertaining and cute as it dreams of being; in that middle section it becomes especially breezy, and offers that cozy spectacle that comes from basking in vibrant musical numbers with smiling faces, stacked vocal harmonies, and epic choreography. ... It most of all very clearly wants to put on a dazzling show. That very enthusiasm is nearly impossible to resist.
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Jul 20, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The show, in short, does what “Into the Woods” does with its fairy tale characters in terms of mashups and revisions. It starts out on a narrow path that widens, nicely. And if I ever get DeBose’s schoolroom tune “All of Your Heart” out of my head, it’ll be a bittersweet miracle.
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IndieWireJul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
An ambitious show that hopes to both modernize the musical while humorously poking fun at some of the more obvious narrative flaws of the genre. With hummable songs and a stellar cast of Broadway and comedy veterans, it’s almost enough to make you forget how surface-level the conceit comes across.
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Jul 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Everything has the shape and feel of the real thing, but very rarely the substance that makes either one satisfying. At a brisk six, half-hour episodes, it’s painless, and sometimes genuinely enjoyable. Just not as enjoyable as the schoolchildren, or anyone in Schmigadoon, seem to find everything around them.
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Apr 5, 2023
Season 2 Review:
This really is just a redo in a different era, and the story feels particularly slight in terms of serving as little more than the connective-tissue excuse for all those ripe musical parodies. A trip to “Schmicago!” isn’t bad by that measure, but to borrow from one of those aforementioned musicals, this is another case when one singular sensation, in hindsight, probably would do.
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The TelegraphJul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The series is executive produced by SNL boss Lorne Michaels, and has the feel of an extended sketch. It certainly doesn’t match the great musicals for dramaturgical sophistication or specificity, nor will it convert those who’d rather cut off their own ears than listen to a dreamy Lerner and Loewe ballad. But, after a barren year for Broadway and the West End, this good-hearted show is a welcome musical reprise.
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Jul 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Overall, it’s difficult to pinpoint Schmigadoon!’s intentions. It doesn’t offer a new narrative like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend or impressively catchy tracks like Netflix’s Julie And The Phantoms. It doesn’t tap into the real potential of its seasoned cast like 30 Rock or Portlandia, nor does it have anything new to say for or against musicals, in general. But if you’re looking for something breezy in which to escape the world’s heaviness for a song or two, Schmigadoon! is a watchable enough option.
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Jul 16, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It is certainly likable in its parts, and in its performances, and in that it acknowledges there was musical theater before Disney took over 42nd Street. ... But the book doesn’t sing, even if the actors do. Jokes fall flat. It’s conceptually muddy, magically themed yet somehow lacking magic, schematic but illogical — a charge against which “Schmigadoon!” preemptively defends itself.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Strong and Key are both very solid anchors for the story, though there are moments where they’re treating the material as an extended sketch, not a naturally occurring world. Everybody sings with enthusiasm and leaps into the choreography with the best of intentions. ... I just needed more from Schmigadoon! than “Hey, we love that thing you love!” camaraderie. I do love that thing. I just wish I liked this thing more.
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The PlaylistJul 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It comes to life in bursts, leading one to hope that it will cohere into something more daring and complex around the next toe-tapping corner, but then it recedes back to the surface, afraid to really engage with any of its ideas about love, relationships, or even classic musicals. Sure, it’s fun, but it’s almost more disposable than the broadly goofy stage plays that it parodies.
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Jul 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
So much talent was involved in bringing to the screen a show that ought to have been a home run. There’s something miscalibrated about “Schmigadoon!” After having borrowed quite so heavily from traditional forms, the show only haltingly and gradually, and without much of the help that the neglected Key and Strong might have provided, arrives at something that can stand on its own.
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