- Network: TLC
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2025
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While purporting to pull back the curtain and reveal the real life that happens behind the scrim of scandal and celebrity—to find out, in Hilaria’s words, “where do you go from a tragedy”—the show ends up mostly pasting on a frozen rictus grin, whose dark underside we catch only glimpses of. .... And there is arguably something no less unseemly about making a show about yet-unresolved torment and grief that corrals one’s family into an extended act of performance.
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Call it Alec & Hilaria Plus 7. And lament that the show—which also counts the couple as executive producers—is so obsessive in its quest to make the Baldwins seem like normal human beings, it forgets to be even a little bit interesting.
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A cautionary tale? Perhaps. Does it mean anything else? Anything more profound? You almost hope it doesn’t. .... You look for motives, because the content is so otherwise static, and even disturbing—because this kind of “intrusive” ersatz reality has become so painfully pedestrian. Likewise, the plotline of the series (only one episode of which was made available).
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The Baldwins is dreadful, and makes the couple look likewise.
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Alec is more sad and defeated than another dozy dad in the tradition of doddery Ozzy. Whether or not he’ll be able to revive his career remains to be seen, but this series is a low-point.
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The pilot episode of The Baldwins, TLC’s new reality show about actor Alec Baldwin and his family, is one of the darkest and most bizarre hours of television to appear in recent memory.