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Positive:
11
Mixed:
10
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
ColliderFeb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
I was blown away by just how bizarre it all was (in a good way, of course). ... It's that never-ending sense of enigma that makes The Consultant such a thoroughly enjoyable watch. You'll spend days trying to puzzle out the ending, piece together Regus' master plan (if he even has one), or even just trying to make up your mind about whether he's a villain or a hero.
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The Mercury NewsFeb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Knockout. ... A shocking opening sequence establishes an unsettling tone that grabs you from the start, pushing you to gobble up future episodes as if they were leftover salt-and-vinegar potato chips. Christoph Waltz is the show’s ace up its sleeve. He gives his all to create one of the most distinctive villains to grace any series.
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The Daily BeastFeb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Even if Waltz’s protagonist is ultimately an easy riddle to decipher, and his tale isn’t as expansive as it could be, The Consultant paints a cynical portrait of 21st-century business as a ruthless arena in which the means always justify the ends. ... Yet in Basgallop and Waltz’s assured hands, it’s nonetheless delivered with a humorous amount of bite.
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Feb 23, 2023
Mar 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Although it seeks to be contemporary in its examination of workplace culture, The Consultant occasionally gets bogged down by incoherence. Heavy-handed symbolism and dramatic distractions muddy the waters on more than one occasion, marring an otherwise intelligent show.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Deeply weird. ... It’s always refreshing to see timely social commentary delivered without a lecture, and the show’s portrait of irrational obedience to authority lands perfectly. But creator Tony Basgallop identifies thematically rich tensions between creativity and commerce, quality and efficiency, kindness and success—all relevant to the contemporary white-collar workplace—without really exploring them.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Its theme, the workplace’s encroachment onto all aspects of one’s personal life, seems as resonant at this moment as ever before. The manner it’s explored is fanciful and at times frankly silly, but it’s just enough to serve as intellectual ballast on a show that’s otherwise (mainly) pleasantly goofy.
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The GuardianFeb 24, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Many questions. But all, I suspect, with answers, and not very complex ones at that. That – along with the spooky basement records room opened by a key with a giant brass keyring stamped “RECORDS”, and a decadent members-only nightclub that has transformed into generic office space by morning and assorted other hokum essentials – is what makes it fun, and perfectly, perfectly fine. As I said: no more, no less.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The show is best when it keeps the action to this space, and, with Prime Video dropping all eight episodes at once, viewers can binge the series as a four-hour movie and easily imagine it as a kind of filmed stage-play. The bugs of this program come in on the level of script and story.
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Feb 24, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Basgallop’s cross of “Silicon Valley” and “The Devil’s Advocate” doesn’t come together because he hasn’t invested sufficiently in the dramatic infrastructure. We’re left waiting for Regus’s mask to come off and wondering if there will be anything there when it does.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
[Craig and Elaine's] chemistry is sound and they are the characters in whom we're invested. But even as the Patoff malignancy grows and the casualties mount, the stakes for our heroes remain low, making it unlikely that the audience will commit to the entire enterprise.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
At a certain point, The Consultant is counting on Waltz as its exclusive source of humor and terror — and, as familiar as this performance is within his oeuvre, he anchors the long build-up more than capably. If, however, you’re placing that much responsibility on one actor and one character in an eight-episode season, you’d darned well better do something impressive by the end. Or at least interesting. The Consultant does not.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The Consultant doesn’t benefit from [creator Tony Basgallop's] impressive visual style (Matt Shakman’s direction in the pilot is too cold and clinical, despite ostensibly fitting the setting), or the high camp tone of its entire ensemble. Instead, The Consultant is one show you can easily downsize from your media diet.
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Feb 23, 2023
Season 1 Review:
We never see an ordinary workday, and we have so little sense of the characters’ personal lives that any mention of them feels jarring. They seem to exist only as lenses through which to view the ensuing chaos, not least of which because the series fails to drum up a plausible reason for Craig and Elaine to stop shopping their résumés around and stay at CompWare. Viewers, luckily, are under no such obligation.
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