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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comMar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
With such a large ensemble, the show cleverly gives each character their moment—whether it’s their motivations, quirks, or secrets coming to light. And as the investigation unfolds, it becomes harder to distinguish the guilty from the suspicious, making the mystery all the more compelling.
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The GuardianMar 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Although there is an ensemble vibe, it remains Aduba’s show, and rightfully so. She is a magnetic presence and The Residence takes full advantage of that. This is not television that is going to change the world, but it is going to give you eight hours of fantastic escape. Enjoy.
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Oct 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Cordelia’s signature quirk keeps the tone featherlight while doubling as a whetstone. .... Besides Park and the victim, the White House’s chief usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito), no other character feels especially essential. Don’t get me wrong – her co-stars are the bonding agents strengthening this whimsical flimsiness.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The conceit runs a bit thin before we learn whodunit, but the cast is so full of comedy pros (including Jane Curtin, Bronson Pinchot and Al Franken) that we're happy to find them all guilty of scene-stealing. [24 Mar - 13 Apr 2025, p.4]
Mar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
When not laboring to make the show legible to half-watchers and the recently concussed, “The Residence” is actually pretty fun. Aduba is superb, exuding rigid brilliance and appeal. She’s also the show’s best volleying partner; the characters are their most interesting and vibrant when talking to Cupp.
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Mar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
I can’t speak to whether “The Residence” works as an actual whodunit. .... But regardless of where it all ends up, watching Cupp working through her leads — and getting folks to fess up to lesser crimes while nattering darkly about birds — makes for a pretty good time.
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Mar 19, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Aduba’s an imposing presence in any case, and one would hope to see her character enlisted in further Cornelia Cupp adventures — the name itself seems too good to waste — if perhaps shorter than the current season’s eight episodes, which are by temporal necessity here and there padded. (“It’s hard to keep track of everything,” Cupp says at one point, as if in sympathy with the viewer.) There could be twice as many stories if they made them half as long, and four times as many at a perfectly generous two hours.
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Mar 20, 2025
IndieWireMar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Time would’ve been better spent, however, investing in characters — or at least one character. With such a large ensemble, it’s inevitable that most parts will be one-dimensional. That’s fine. .... But why is Cordelia Cupp similarly one-note? Beyond the audience’s preexisting adoration for Uzo Aduba, there’s very little about her character to latch onto.
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Mar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s trying to be cleverer than its genre and more than “just” a murder mystery, as if that wouldn’t have been fun, interesting, or watchable enough. The joke—and it’s way meatier than that running Hugh Jackman one—though is that The Residence should have just stuck to the basics (and given us more Aduba).
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The Daily BeastMar 20, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The result, unfortunately, is a lot less than the sum of its many, many parts. The main problem with The Residence is that there’s too much of it. Its hour-long episodes (a crime for any comedy series) are stopped dead by flashbacks and flash-forwards that turn the very act of watching into a chore while you’re forced to parse where each scene exists in the timeline.
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