- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 2011
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I said that The Playboy Club might be promising. Guess what? I lied.
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They want to be both fun and edifying and end up being neither, and style-wise, they feel too much like Wikipedia entries with actors. The series might have managed to overcome these problems (partly, at least) if it had a a strong point-of-view, however conflicted, toward what it's showing us. But it doesn't.
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The Playboy Club is nothing but a tarted-up mob drama; the bunnies may be used as the marketing and milieu but the main narrative is about the men, and no one seems aware of the irony.
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While options during the era were surely limited, the show's broad strokes don't do justice to the choices women were making, or their self-awareness while making them.
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Playboy Club makes the mistake of aping Mad Men's Stern social seriousness. [26 Sep 2011, p.54]
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Unless the writing of the show improves exponentially, it may not be around long enough for us to remember the characters' first names, much less learn their last.
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For viewers looking for a solid hour long drama, it is one more thing not to watch.
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What was one of the worst drama pilots of the fall is now one of the worst for slightly, superficially different reasons.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 33
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Mixed: 7 out of 33
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Negative: 6 out of 33
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Dec 30, 2011
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Sep 24, 2011
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Nov 5, 2011