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Positive:
16
Mixed:
12
Negative:
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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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