The Slap (2015)

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 12, 2015
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 33
  3. Negative: 5 out of 33
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Feb 11, 2015
    37
    It's as if every line in the script was written in capital letters--with the exception of the even more ludicrous narration, which was no doubt printed in florid italics.
  2. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Feb 12, 2015
    30
    Meant to provoke, it's about as subtle as a slap.... It's also a "Saturday Night Live" parody waiting to happen.
  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Feb 12, 2015
    30
    Maybe in an airy Broadway theater the issues the show attempts to explore would play better, but on TV The Slap suffocates, packed with too many awful characters I don't want to spend another moment watching.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Feb 11, 2015
    30
    Everything about The Slap feels manipulated — you can smell the smoke off the puppet strings as the characters are jerked into being jerks. And that's just the pilot. The anvil drops more often and with more velocity in the second episode.
  6. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Vicki Hyman
    Feb 12, 2015
    25
    NBC's new miniseries The Slap is a heavy-handed, button-pushing, endlessly irritating drama about a family that slowly unravels after a man slaps another's obnoxious child at a family party.

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User Score
4.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 48 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 48
  3. Negative: 22 out of 48
  1. leckus
    Feb 12, 2015
    2
    I don't understand why the US re-made this series. The original book by Christos Tsiolkas is brilliant, as is the 2011 Australian TV series.I don't understand why the US re-made this series. The original book by Christos Tsiolkas is brilliant, as is the 2011 Australian TV series. While there is nothing particularly bad about the acting here, the characters are poorly drawn, and the direction is heavy-handed, leaving me as the audience little desire to invest in these characters or the remainder of the show. Additionally, a major underlying theme in the book and Australian TV series is a focus on race and class relations specific to Australian society. From viewing the first episode of the re-make, it feels that any adaptation of these themes appropriate to American society have been given short shrift for something that instead feels superficial and more like a soap opera than anything else.… Full Review »
  2. Bgrod
    Feb 12, 2015
    0
    I admit I was intrigued when I read the description of this show. It really did sound like something very different from the mostly safe andI admit I was intrigued when I read the description of this show. It really did sound like something very different from the mostly safe and bland stuff on broadcast television and the actors were all very good. Watching this show was pure torture, however. I can't honestly say it is the worst thing I have ever seen on television but it is definitely in the bottom 5, only redeemed by the actors attached to it. Unfortunately, good actors and an interesting sounding premise can't overcome pretentiously bad execution. I would have to be slapped unconscious to watch any more episodes. Even hate watching and hate tweeting is fun for only so long which I proved by watching Peter Pan Live once and only once. I wonder if someone threatened to slap NBC president, Bob Greenblatt if he didn't air this drivel? .… Full Review »
  3. Shadow10
    Feb 23, 2015
    0
    The first episode shows our society ills: spoiled kids, mom's who breast feed a child who is way too old, husbands who cheat with young girls.The first episode shows our society ills: spoiled kids, mom's who breast feed a child who is way too old, husbands who cheat with young girls. Why can't writers come up with something uplifting and the reader/viewer come away happy? Guess that is asking for too much?… Full Review »
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