- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 21, 2015
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The Brink is whip-smart, featuring actors who know how to play comedy. This one’s a joy to watch.
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An explosively funny satirical descendant that can hit home without being even slightly preachy about it. Mostly, though, have fun with both the madcap characters and the notion that one of the Pakistani demands in play is a full membership with the Augusta National Golf Club.
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The dialogue is smart, biting and sporadically funny as it convincingly argues that its strange fiction is truth and turns the wartime stuff of our nightmares into the blackest of comedy.
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Consistently entertaining, if not hysterical, and plotted with care, so that three distinct story lines dovetail nicely.
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The manic Brink can be exhausting and overbroad, but it also has moments that are acutely, if childishly, funny.
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There’s smart plotting at work, and keen observational skills when it comes to showing who’s truly in power, but it takes a squishy stance on the issues at hand, a “nuclear warfare bad” perspective that makes for agreeable comedy but ineffectual satire.
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The show may err toward silliness, but the cast is uniformly good, and every so often a wry jab at American parochialism or some funny throwaway line will catch you by happy surprise.
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Much of it works very well because of the casting and, to some extent, character direction. The pacing is a bit flaccid here and there, but most of the jokes are worth waiting an extra beat for.
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The humor's not nearly as pointed as it is in Veep, but if you like Jack Black being Jack Black, you should like him here, too.
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Black spends too much time hugging with his eyebrows raised, and the writers go for easy jokes. [3 Jul 2015]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 59 out of 79
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Mixed: 13 out of 79
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Negative: 7 out of 79
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