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Critic Reviews
The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s when it leans into that fascinating, cart-before-the-horse approach that the show really sets itself apart, creating an equivalence between the music and the drama that vibrates and resonates the way the deepest bassline does, a contact high that you feel in the pit of your stomach.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 13, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Authenticity is the key to this slow-burning but mesmerizing celebration of a world where life is a messy improvisation. ... The Eddy evokes an art-house sensibility with handheld and jittery camerawork that swirls to the music. But there's a gripping pulp aspect tot he narrative. [11 - 24 May 2020, p.7]
IndieWireApr 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Shot in a gritty, handheld, vérité style (as apt for the French setting as the jazz performances framing its story), “The Eddy” finds a compelling rhythm in a melodic blend of genres — part family drama, part musical, part thriller — that, while occasionally plodding, crescendos with considerable emotional heft.
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May 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The series presents life as something that happens simultaneously with music—not just adjacent to it, but surrounded by it. Refreshingly, the camerawork tells the story without gimmicks—no slo-mo, no flashbacks, no dream sequences. The result is that time, too, seems to be composed of music, moving forward at the same tempo.
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May 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While it certainly contains moments of suspense and conflict, the eight-episode drama is more of a slow, mellow burn. ... Still canal waters are by no means a bad thing, though. ... If you can shut off your tendencies to nitpick and simply give yourself over to The Eddy, there is a lot of pleasure to be found in it. The music is lovely and performed with passion, and there are moments of profound joy.
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Apr 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As laborious as it may sound to spotlight various storylines, which always runs the risk of shortchanging others, The Eddy manages to keep you invested while Elliot anchors the story. That is helped by thoughtful performances especially by Holland and Bekhti as well as the rest of the cast, some of whom are actual musicians.
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Feb 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The first episode ends with the setting well established, thanks to a constantly moving camera that nervously picks up details of the cool, cluttered sets as it roams the faces in the club and pinpoints the weak spots of each character. ... Chazelle continues exploring the unsavory side of Paris in high cinematic style in the second episode, which is devoted to Julie and her world. Stenberg creates a sophisticated New Yorker who keeps a guarded distance from her father, but is still curious about his life and attracted to the creative atmosphere around him.
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ColliderMay 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
he overarching narrative, involving the Parisian underworld of drugs and guns and how it infiltrates the supposed peaceful world of the club, gives the series some degree of stakes but honestly, more often than not, feels like a distraction. ... What is here, though, is held together by the remarkable strength of the international cast, all taking their cues from Holland.
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RogerEbert.comMay 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Think of “The Eddy” like a trip to an actual jazz club. There are times, especially in the beginning, when you’ll want to go get a drink or take a bathroom break, but there are also incredible solos and moments when the whole band comes together to form something almost transcendent. Whether you focus on the highs or lows after the band has left the stage is up to you.
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May 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While The Eddy takes place in a Paris neighborhood you don’t see on postcards, its structure and themes will feel immediately familiar. ... Recognizing the beat doesn’t make The Eddy less moving, but it does keep an impeccably made series from being something more groundbreaking.
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May 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
For anyone hoping that Damien Chazelle could bring his live-wire energy from films like Whiplash and La La Land to the small screen with the Netflix limited series The Eddy, lower those expectations. But come prepared for great jazz performances and a killer André Holland turn.
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The GuardianMay 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The Script is not one that shines, though it does dip in and out of multiple languages, and give a great sense of the deeper bond among the people who end up in the Eddy together, even as they struggle and clash on the surface. True jazz fans may find it the perfect riff on the basic gangster plot. The rest of us, perhaps, not so much.
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May 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The Eddy works most often on the side of things focused on the music, the culture, and the complicated relationship between Elliot and Julie. ... There are a number of scenes between them — particularly one where they discuss the deeper meaning of Julie changing her hairstyle — that are so sharply observed and poignant, it only makes the meandering, schizophrenic quality of the rest of The Eddy more frustrating.
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May 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The trouble with The Eddy is it keeps confusing its received ideas of what’s dramatic with what’s actually interesting. The show keeps putting Julie in peril, getting her wasted and then sending her running through the streets asking strangers for coke as her father frantically searches for her, but there’s more genuine feeling in the quiet conversation they have later. ... The way the music fits into The Eddy’s narrative is its smartest and most satisfying quality.
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May 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In short, the atmosphere of the series is transporting, and the toggling between French (with subtitles) and English, and images of the less-than-glamorous parts of France we don’t generally see on scripted TV, add nicely to the exoticism. But the story line imposed onto the setting is awfully stale, as familiar as the ambience is not.
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Feb 28, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show seems equally divided between whether it wants to be a live chronicle of Ballard’s music or a boilerplate father-daughter reconciliation tale, spiced up with exotic locations and a soupcon of criminal intrigue. For a record of Ballard’s music, buy the record. For the rest, future episodes will have to put the characters first.
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May 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
As long as you're a jazz fan, great; the best moments of "The Eddy" are its performances, mainly brought to us by the eponymous jazz club's house band made up of real, professional musicians. ... Frustratingly, the music is a heavy condiment on dry bread slathered with malaise, with a side of uninspired crime subplot.
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May 6, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It is often a dirge. Its format seems intended to not just thwart but strangle enthusiasm. ... A great deal of the dialogue in “The Eddy” feels improvised, which might, under other circumstances, be a compliment. Not here. There’s the distinct sense of characters not listening to each other when they talk, of there being no narrative objective or even a governing intelligence behind the show.
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Jun 24, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There’s naturalistic acting, and then there’s mumbling. And the first episode had a lot of mumbling, especially from André Holland. The Eddy is a pretentious mess of a show, and even the expert music that is interspersed through the first episode isn’t enough to save it. In fact, it makes things worse.
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