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Critic Reviews
IndieWireMar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The Path, based on the full first season provided for review, is an expertly constructed, beautifully shot and impeccably acted piece of television worthy of the hype Hulu has helped build around it. But more than that, it's a series addressing issues of faith more directly than any in recent memory.
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IndieWireJan 17, 2018
Season 3 Review:
A major revelation in the early episodes rocks the movement and the series’ foundation; it’s a bold development and one that opens up the series to relevant real-world parallels. It’s tough to say more without giving away the twist, but it’s worth noting how it could’ve sent the show spiraling into soap, and instead, only gave it more power.
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IndieWireJan 25, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Season 2 works to lure the audience into understanding corruption, demands you accept its role in life, and promptly slaps you in the face for considering it. The lessons are harsh and delivered with greater conviction. Guided by strong performances all around, each character feels like they’re living on the edge of a revelation.
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Jan 25, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Goldberg and her team have a much better handle on both Meyerism and what might draw worshipers to it in season two, and that keeps the rest of the show afloat. But ultimately the show works because it captures the feeling of being enmeshed in something greater than yourself, whether that organization is bound together by faith, by familial duty, or by love.
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Mar 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
What benefits the series most is its strong cast to take on these intricate roles, which might fall flat otherwise. Paul, Monaghan and Dancy are outstanding as very flawed people, whose fate you can care about; they aren’t evil but at times susceptible to their own demons and blinded by their faith.
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Jan 23, 2017
Season 2 Review:
Flat direction and uninspired scenarios prevent the actors from shining, yet not enough to smother the potential of a drama that examines the value of religion in post-religion cultures. [27 Jan 2017, p.55]
Apr 6, 2016
Season 1 Review:
There are also moments you’ll find yourself wishing Goldberg and Katims had trimmed away some of the less vital elements of their dense tale and cleared a path toward higher stakes and greater suspense. ... Still, The Path benefits greatly from the way it takes us into a murky world and repeatedly makes us question how we feel about its protagonists.
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Apr 11, 2016
Season 1 Review:
When stacked up against a series like “The Leftovers,” which also examines a cult, it feels flat at first. But once the story does finally get rolling, the intersecting elements begin to build towards a compelling story with more complexity than first meets the eye.
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Mar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It’s a compelling but slow and dire series that falls into that mid-range of long-form TV drama, where you’re interested enough to keep watching till the season is through, but not so riveted that you don’t periodically wonder if the storytellers actually needed this many episodes to tell this particular story, and if the acting and filmmaking, however excellent, is enough of a lure to justify lingering on subplots or scenes.
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Mar 30, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It's the growing tension between Eddie, with his insecure decency and possibly actual mysticism, and the charm-boy con of Cal, that drives the show. Which works well enough--no doubt there will be Emmy nods--but it misses the even more golden opportunity to tell a story of faith and doubt, of the dangers posed by both compromise and rigidity, while examining the underpinnings of marriage and family.
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Mar 29, 2016
Mar 25, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Given how niftily realized The Meyerism Movement is throughout the entire first season, its stretches of twiddling banality only feel tiresome in hindsight. In the moment, The Path always seems to have its footing, mostly thanks to the confident strut of of its leads.
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Jan 17, 2018
Season 3 Review:
The Path itself is at its best when attuned to the raw passion of fervent religious devotion. [19 Jan 2018, p.52]
Uncle BarkyMar 29, 2016
TV Guide MagazineMar 17, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Provocative but murky drama. [21 Mar-3 Apr 2016, p.19]
Mar 25, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It’s frustrating when a series hitches its drama to a lack of communication as its primary conceit because the solution seems so simple: Just ’fess up! The addition of new sources of dramatic conflict in episode two helps explain Eddie’s choice but doesn’t completely eliminate the show’s weak dramatic raison d’etre.
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Mar 28, 2016
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