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Positive:
10
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Feb 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
When Super Pumped heightens its reality and embraces the absurd, it smartly comes across more as a dark successor to 500 Days Of Summer than a Fincher rip-off. It’s a credit to Gordon-Levitt that he’s able to pull off the same feat he did in 500 Days, keeping the core of the character true throughout wild tonal shifts, and making our protagonist compelling enough to invest in his journey despite being despicable.
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Mar 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The first two episodes are fueled by sneers, bombast, hard rock and dialogue that tries a little too hard to replicate the “A million dollars isn’t cool. ... But then the supporting characters — starting with Travis’s first major investor, Bill Gurley (Kyle Chandler) — emerge, and “Super Pumped” becomes much more humane, coherent and watchable.
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Feb 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Gurley plays with fire in “The Battle for Uber,” which is often more intriguing than it is purely entertaining. Much of the dialogue arrives as speechifying, whether or not someone is giving a speech. ... It’s the Gurley-Kalanick story, though, that gives narrative muscle to “Uber,” which plays with our expectations and maybe even has a moral.
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The IndependentJun 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The series resists the urge to humanise Travis’s selfishness, but it also fails to extrapolate what super pumped guys like Travis mean for Silicon Valley and the rest of us. The result is low-calorie entertainment of the highest order, as flashy and empty as Travis’s self-serving rallying cry.
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The GuardianFeb 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
At its best, Super Pumped pokes at the dubious ethics of Silicon Valley – even the guys ostensibly trying to do the right thing, such as Gurley’s determination to allow drivers to collect tips, are ultimately focused on the bottom line. But it’s a discordant, tiring watch.
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Feb 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Super Pumped makes the case that figures like Kalanick pride themselves on pushing boundaries so much that they decide boundaries don’t need to exist. And that’s interesting to explore, up to a point. But exploring that flawed, morally unmoored worldview also results in regurgitating messages that TV shows and movies about the business world have been telegraphing for decades.
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Feb 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Super Pumped” can’t figure out what it’s about — an occupational hazard, perhaps, of taking as a subject a company whose offenses are so multifarious, and one that was founded and led by a person whose whole thing is relentless ambition without mitigating nuance. The show finally finds something of a groove in telling the story of Susan Fowler (Eva Victor), the engineer who helped to expose a culture of sexual harassment within Uber.
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IndieWireFeb 23, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Fueled by anger more than insights, it doesn’t seem built to provide a fresh spin on greed and power in the 21st century, or how Kalanick’s quest mirrors technology giants’ invasive, self-serving business practices. Those elements are there, but they’re sped by in favor of chronicling events already recounted elsewhere.
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Feb 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Super Pumped has its share of pleasures, from a sprawling cast of familiar faces (Kerry Bishé, Fred Armisen and Elisabeth Shue are also among them) to a catchy soundtrack stuffed with the likes of Queen and Alice in Chains. But without anything deep or fresh to say about what we’re seeing, it all amounts to not much more than a shallow portrait of a self-proclaimed asshole.
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