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The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow

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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews

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Overwhelming dislike based on 19 Ratings

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The Goop Lab With Gwyneth Paltrow

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The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: January 24, 2020

Summary: The documentary series hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen talk about a variety of health and wellness topics with doctors, researchers and other health practitioners.

Genre(s): Reality, Health & Lifestyle, Talk & Interview

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S1:E6. Are You Intuit?
Air Date: January 24, 2020
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S1:E6. Are You Intuit?
Air Date: January 24, 2020
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S1:E5. The Energy Experience
Air Date: January 24, 2020

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Critic Reviews

70

New York Magazine (Vulture)

Jen Chaney

Jan 21, 2020

Season 1 Review: The Goop Lab isn’t particularly hateable. Some of the episodes are even helpful. ... My chief complaint about The Goop Lab, believe it or not, is that its episodes need to be a little longer. Read full review

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Variety

Daniel D'Addario

Jan 17, 2020

Season 1 Review: There’s a reason that snake oil was successful long before Paltrow discovered it: Slick things are shiny too. “The Goop Lab” is only the latest iteration. ... Paltrow is a compelling host — not giving too much of herself away, ever stopping short of pure endorsement of any topic even as she gives it air — on what is a carefully structured, elegantly built, compulsively watchable show about, mainly, complete nonsense. No wonder she makes people so very mad. Read full review

60

Slate

Willa Paskin

Jan 23, 2020

Season 1 Review: Goop Lab’s six episodes generally skirt the most eyebrow-raising of Goop’s nonsense, while mixing up the far-out and the less so. ... Don’t let The Goop Lab’s other experts fool you. Paltrow is the most expert of all: Self-aware, self-actualized, self-improving, and beyond self-reproach, she’s what Goop is actually selling. Read full review

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Time

Judy Berman

Jan 22, 2020

Season 1 Review: What’s disturbing about the show is that when you combine Gwyneth’s aura of trustworthiness with a mishmash of real science, New Age nonsense, vague female empowerment rhetoric, naked commercialism and some startling knowledge gaps in areas where Goop claims expertise, the result has its unique dangers. ... Some episodes are more than just distasteful. Read full review

30

Decider

Joel Keller

Jan 27, 2020

Season 1 Review: The Goop Lab isn’t even worth hate-watching, it’s so anger inducing. Read full review

30

The Hollywood Reporter

Inkoo Kang

Jan 23, 2020

Season 1 Review: There are few surprises in The Goop Lab: The show is as silly and grating as expected, and Paltrow doubles down on the polarizing persona she's cultivated for the last decade and a half as Hollywood's most famous woo-woo peddler. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal

John Anderson

Jan 23, 2020

Season 1 Review: The mind will wander. Mine did, even during what is undoubtedly the most provocative “Goop Lab” episode, “The Pleasure Is Ours,” a no-detail-left-out exploration of female sexual pleasure. Like most of “Goop Lab,” it’s a crashing bore. And with its stylish but unreadable fonts and the show’s next-level self-absorption, ultimately unwatchable. Read full review

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User Reviews

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caino

Jan 25, 2020

This is lowkey legendary. Gwyneth Paltrow is revolutionary and making all kinds of people pressed. We stan!

0 of 6 users found this helpful06

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brockcheese

Nov 14, 2021

This show is not good but its immensely watchable and absolutely bonkers. The slow descent into literally defending mediums is incredible. You do see a lot of vag.

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Sinews

Apr 20, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Dark times are truly upon us. We find ourselves locked inside our homes, waiting out the initial wave of a horrible disease, whose socio-economic toll is in no way comparable to the toll it has taken on human lives. And for the survivors? Aching, soul-crushing boredom. Even I, a true-blue immutable introvert, am finding myself at loose ends and sleeping-in later than is advisable, even if I do appreciate the solitude. And where has this dark, existential-dread ridden retreat into our brick tombs led us? Why, to our glowing red monument to our need for never-ending consumption, of course!

And Gwyneth Paltrow couldn't have come at a better time. In a world where excellent television, whether it be the brooding, booze-addled misfortunes of Don Draper, or the stirring, nerve-racking exploits of one Walter White are available at our fingertips, sometimes nothing beats the 'Ol Schlockfest. Little more could've been asked in this regard from Gwyneth Paltrow, a true auteur in the field.

However, it is my solemn duty to report that The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow has let us down in even this regard. This short-form documentary series could not be appealing to even the most morbidly curious; an ode to a woman's black hole of stupidity, seeking to consume the hopes and beliefs in anything decent of all present. Attempting to comprehend the mind of Gwyneth Paltrow is to stare into the void, and serves as evidence to the chilling notion that perhaps there are people walking around with absolutely nothing inside them but meat, circuitry, and cobwebs.

Each installment is more grotesque and morbid than the last, beginning rather innocuously with a gentrified shrooms-binge in Jamaice, and two episodes later we're treated to studious breakdown of Gwyneth Paltrow's nether-regions, and by that point we haven't even hit the bottom of the barrel. And though the poster for this feature is obviously meant to represent this delicate area of womanhood, it instead serves as a perfect analogy for the descent into the vacuous, gaping hole at the center of our modern cynical, capitalist society which drives us so up-the-wall in our search for anything of any actual substance and meaning that purchasing wax candles fine-tuned to scent of rich-person crotch might strike one as a good idea. And at the center of this cultural crater? None other than Paltrow herself.

When some demagogue rises to harvest our cultivated cynicism, you have Gwyneth Paltrow and her "goop" line to thank.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

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Simoa

Apr 12, 2020

The infuriating, absurd, surprising (in a negative way) pseudo-no-science propaganda, with a side of blatant scam. The only fair conclusion to this s**t should be GP arrested and sent to jail. The people who buy Goop products need a psychologist. Please don't finance this bull**** and don'tThe infuriating, absurd, surprising (in a negative way) pseudo-no-science propaganda, with a side of blatant scam. The only fair conclusion to this s**t should be GP arrested and sent to jail. The people who buy Goop products need a psychologist. Please don't finance this bull**** and don't watch this series.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

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devsdeals

Feb 6, 2020

Exploitative science scams that defraud victims of their money for fake treatments and "medical" magic that is proven to not work. Netflix needs to be more socially responsible and have documentaries that support science, and expose fraud and scams, not show series that attack science andExploitative science scams that defraud victims of their money for fake treatments and "medical" magic that is proven to not work. Netflix needs to be more socially responsible and have documentaries that support science, and expose fraud and scams, not show series that attack science and sell scam treatments.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Rtmitchell

Feb 1, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pseudo science nonsense with no useful information. Completely fails as both entertainment and education. Boring. Devoid of purpose.… Expand

3 of 3 users found this helpful30

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Bozzwick

May 2, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E6. Are You Intuit?
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E6. Are You Intuit?
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
- tbd
  S1:E5. The Energy Experience
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E5. The Energy Experience
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E4. The Health-Span Plan
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E4. The Health-Span Plan
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E3. The Pleasure Is Ours
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E3. The Pleasure Is Ours
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E2. Cold Comfort
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E2. Cold Comfort
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E1. The Healing Trip
  Air Date: January 24, 2020
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  S1:E1. The Healing Trip
  Air Date: January 24, 2020