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Critic Reviews
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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