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Critic Reviews
ColliderOct 2, 2024
TV Guide MagazineOct 24, 2024
Season 1 Review:
This hilariously vicious showbiz satire, from producers of Veep and Succession, spares no one in front or behind the camera in its skewing of a big-budget workplace. [28 Oct - 17 Nov 2024, p.4]
iOct 22, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Franchise isn’t damning enough to cause some sort of reckoning upon Hollywood’s franchise factory. But it is cutting enough to lift the curtain on what it’s really like to pander to an industry that constantly changes its mind and has no room for originality. The truth may not be pretty – but it certainly is laughable.
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The TelegraphOct 22, 2024
Season 1 Review:
This is comedy from a recognisable school. Mainly this is a good thing – I’m not sure that I will ever tire of the rabid phrasemaking and effervescent swearing that has long been an Iannucci trademark, nor the habit of contorting language and corporate speak to the point where words lose all meaning.
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Oct 2, 2024The PlaylistOct 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“The Franchise” is not perfect by any means, but it is very watchable and bingeable, delivered in easy-to-digest 30-minute chunks of droll, in-the-know comedy. Whether the series assembles again for another sequel remains unclear, but fanboys, myself included, who enjoyed this origin story season will surely like to see where it flies next.
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IndieWireOct 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
People like Dag getting lost in the shuffle is both the point and an oversight. When it comes to blockbuster franchises, “The Franchise” argues the people making the movies don’t matter in the slightest compared to what they’re making. But the people also don’t matter as much as they could to the series itself.
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Oct 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The show gets so much better when it’s not about characters insisting they’re better than the shit they’re shoveling and instead revel in said shit. That’s when they become people you actually like spending time with. The series has a lot of fun with Superstore-esque cutaways to whatever nonsense is happening among the crew around the set.
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The Observer (UK)Oct 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
With a teeming cast, it also frequently lacks any sense of a core (Selina’s inner circle in Veep; the Roy family in Succession). Yet though it’s a tad hackneyed on spoofing the superhero movie factory (this is, after all, a genre that reinvents and satirises itself), the series is strong on the insanity, insecurity, vanity, hierarchy, “location brain” and abject humiliation of film-making, with references to Christopher Nolan and superhero genre critic Martin Scorsese thrown in for good measure.
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The GuardianOct 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
After the pilot, during which I not only didn’t laugh but couldn’t see anywhere I was supposed to laugh (except when Dan tells the classic, perfect joke about the manure-shoveller at the circus), there are some good – if never great – lines and images scattered around.
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Oct 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Thanks to the sheer talent of the cast, and to the kind of creative profanity you get from any comedy produced by Veep creator Armando Iannucci, there are laughs to be had — just not nearly enough given the pedigree. And most of the satire seems content to skim the surface of superhero movie culture.
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Oct 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
There are too many extraordinarily talented people involved with The Franchise, on both sides of the camera, for it not to be occasionally scathing in funny and well-constructed ways, at least for a few episodes. By the second half of the season, though, it becomes less and less focused, less and less narratively interesting and more and more satirically banal.
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