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Positive:
15
Mixed:
11
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
The TimesJun 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Like Ted Lasso, this is a story that is unafraid to take its flawed characters on an emotionally charged comedic flight over fairway and rough, through the woods and into bunkers, before leaving them all a putt at happiness. If you’re looking for a new comedy, it’s worth a shot.
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Radio TimesMay 30, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Stick's shortcomings don't stop it from being an enjoyable show, but they are frustrating wrinkles that can hopefully be ironed out in the second half of the season, or perhaps even in a second. As it stands, I am still prepared to bet that this is the best golf comedy you'll see this summer.
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RogerEbert.comJun 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Stick” shares some foundational plot and character DNA with Apple TV+ standouts “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking.” But while it doesn’t match the depth of writing or the emotional resonance of those series, it’s a solid and satisfying effort with the potential for a multi-season run.
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Jun 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
“Stick” is a little too wary of poking at its own emotional underbelly, and the home stretch of the 10-episode season veers into overt golf boosterism at the expense of the primary plot. Wilson’s charisma nonetheless forms a solid enough foundation to make the enterprise worthwhile.
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The TelegraphJun 4, 2025
Jun 3, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The series is essentially a 10-episode sports movie, with all the hooks, shanks and holes that come with the territory, so the outright surprises are few. But it’s the kind of thing one will like, if one has any affection for Mr. Wilson’s brand of arrested adolescence.
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The Daily BeastMay 30, 2025
Jun 4, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Warmhearted, inoffensive TV has its place, and there’s plenty audiences might appreciate about “Stick” despite some predictable beats; stories about healing can bridge a lot of thematic incoherence. But for a show that talks a fair bit about when to take big swings — and when not to — “Stick” is disappointingly timid.
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May 30, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Stick nails the ending, with a big finish that’s cornily brilliant in the way that perhaps only sports stories can be, and it still just about gets there under par. But the series lamentably has to hack its way through a longer, rougher route to get there than it might have liked.
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Jun 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The elements of the show that do start to gel only make the trauma-plot framework more annoying. Every time Stick starts to roll ahead into some momentum for the future, the story has to boomerang around into a reminder of where they’ve all been. Each step forward comes with two steps back.
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Jun 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Its heart is firmly in the right place, but it leaks treacle and cliché all over the screen. Worse still, you can watch several of the first season’s 10 episodes without laughing once. “Stick” inspires impassivity, not a good quality for a comedy or really, any other kind of television.
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