- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 16, 2021
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A few interesting performances from an ensemble that’s too talented for this show save it from complete disaster, but every single one of the five episodes of “The Premise” takes an admittedly interesting idea and almost stubbornly refuses to explore it, as if the very experiment of this series is one in shallow writing.
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The half-hour anthology series suffers from an inability to take most of its own thought exercises all that seriously, resulting in logical inconsistencies, tonal unevenness and no small amount of smugness.
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Most of the episodes feature lengthy, clumsy bits of dialogue or monologue that feel ripped from the daily concerns — and the ranty, discursive way of talking at, not to, one’s followers — of social media. ... Only one episode here seems to get at what “The Premise” was trying to do — create, through storytelling ratcheted past the point of plausibility, a situation that places a frame around certain intractable sensations of living in this moment.