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Positive:
32
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7
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Critic Reviews
ColliderJan 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There are a lot of moving pieces in The Afterparty and under the guidance of Miller, he makes it all look effortless. With its remarkably clever casting, its genre-jumping style, and hilarious comedy mixed with an exciting mystery, The Afterparty shows that nothing is too difficult for Lord and Miller to accomplish in what is already one of the best TV debuts of 2022.
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ColliderJun 29, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It remains imaginative and ingenious in how it plays with what we expect from comedies and mysteries. Even if some of the ideas don’t entirely work as well as they did in the first season, The Afterparty takes interesting swings that continue to make this one of the most innovative and creative shows on today.
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Jan 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The show makes excellent use of physical comedy and visual gags throughout its run, and the scripts are filled with lighthearted shenanigans that at times feel reminiscent of Psych, the long-running USA series that also experimented with style and excelled at bringing humor to the murder mystery genre while examining its lead’s arrested development.
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IndieWireJan 28, 2022
Jul 19, 2023
Season 2 Review:
I was afraid the “Afterparty” formula might not click the second time around, but it works beautifully once again. You could say season 2 isn’t as finely plotted as season 1 and you wouldn’t be wrong — but ultimately it doesn’t matter. The fun is in the characters and their imaginations, as well as the comic actors who play them.
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Jul 11, 2023
Feb 21, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The show carefully calibrates shtick and insight. “Tell the story a certain way,” Zoë says to Danner, solemnly, “and any one of us could’ve done this. But tell the story in a different way, and none of us did this.” Lines like that—blatant exposition, not of plot but of premise—could easily wear thin. But just as the show starts to seem overly enamored of its conceit, it remembers its own genre: comedy.
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Feb 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
I’m loving “The Afterparty” on Apple TV+ for its playful approach to the whodunit. ... The cast also makes it fly, not surprisingly, with Tiffany Haddish, Ilana Glazer, Dave Franco, and Ike Barinholtz in the mix. Ben Schwartz — he was Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on “Parks and Recreation” — is joyfully nuts, with a song-and-dance episode that elevates the whole series.
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Jan 27, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The mystery’s at least fun to unpack along the way as each character lets slip something new. And for as much as the format trickery forms the spine of “The Afterparty,” the show becomes more intriguing and much funnier than it might’ve been thanks to the sharp actors embodying each different genre.
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Jan 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s a compelling mashup of tropes not only on an episode level but on a character level, because the show is also playing around with high school archetypes; maybe the bully isn’t as aggro as everyone assumed, and maybe the frazzled one-time ace student hasn’t gone entirely off the deep end in adulthood.
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Jan 24, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Musical and animated gags are particularly well-executed, with canny lighting cues and hair, makeup and costume variations throughout. In both subtle and outrageous ways, “The Afterparty” is an enjoyable act of doing the same thing over as differently as possible — as best as you can get away with it.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 10, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The influences are as familiar as Hitchcock and Bridgerton and as art-house specific as Wes Anderson and the Chinese romance In the Mood for Love. [14 Aug - 3 Sep 2023, p.6]
SlashfilmJun 29, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Even if it's difficult to imagine how this show might keep the title theme going for hypothetical future seasons (in this case, much of the action takes place before, during, and after the actual wedding ceremony and reception), the moment-to-moment thrills more than justify another several hours spent with some of the broadest and funniest archetypes to appear in any recent whodunnit.
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IndieWireJul 12, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 devotes most of each character study to backstory, relationships, and emotional baggage (aka possible motives) that predate the actual wedding, scattering focus and isolating players from the bigger picture. It’s an experiment; a chance for “The Afterparty” to widen its scope — but maybe a lesson that future seasons shouldn’t.
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iJan 28, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Although its commitment is admirable, the stylish execution is let down by the gags just not being quite as funny as they should be, especially with a cast this stellar. It might well be that the series is best viewed as a whole with all the careful machinations exposed but so far, the jokes don’t stack up to the clever conceit.
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The IndependentJan 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
While its cast are generally likeable, and there’s a certain freshness about its commitment to being two things at once, too often it isn’t amusing enough to be enjoyed as pure comedy, or tense enough to be appreciated as a murder mystery. Too often it relies on basic puns, or sophomoric self-referentiality, to get a cheap gag rather than developing more complicated ones.
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