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Critic Reviews
Apr 5, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Anyone who thought the initial season of The Tick was good but mildly underwhelming will find quite a bit to like here. After years of people trying to tell this story and either failing entirely or succeeding when no one was looking (see the criminally overlooked 2001 series), this feels like the iteration of The Tick we’ve all been waiting for.
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Aug 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
There’s an exploration of bureaucracy in the world of superheroes that implies a whole separate David Simon-worthy spinoff. There’s Serafinowicz, a true delight. And just when I was starting to get bored with how every episode ends on a cliffhanger, episode 6 ends with someone yelling “CLIFFHANGER!”
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Aug 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
With key episodes written by Edlund and directed by Wally Pfister (who photographed "The Dark Knight,” ironically), the show is clever and crazy in the right proportions; it is always, in its outsized way, human and believable. It's everything I like in a thing like this.
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Aug 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Serafinowicz, with sharp, sunny delivery, nails the sort of delusion underpinning the myth, the cracked psyche that it would take to put on a form-fitting costume replete with bobbing antennae and leap toward the sky. And Newman, as the civilian roped into the Tick's schemes, comes up with a coherent way to sell a situation fundamental to the superhero story.
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Aug 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
All of this is played for laughs, but the kind of laughs Edlund goes for may be challenging for some viewers. It's silly, of course, but mostly, the show is droll. There are few, if any, sidesplitting moments and you have to listen carefully to catch some of the deadpan moments. ... Any time you have Jackie Earle Haley playing a supervillain, you are in good, lethal hands.
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Aug 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Big, colorful and goofy, The Tick returns at a more hospitable place and time -- on a streaming service (Amazon) that doesn't mention ratings, at a moment when pop culture is already crawling with superheroes. That could make the third time the charm for Ben Edlund's comic-book spoof, which is fun, even if it doesn't quite get under your skin.
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Aug 23, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Arthur's distinct humanity acts as a buoy when The Tick's cynicism becomes off-putting, and his story lends the gravity necessary to bring balance to the show's ironic silliness. As it incessantly mocks the excesses of the superhero genre, The Tick threatens to alienate its target audience by incidentally suggesting the show's own insignificance.
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Aug 24, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Too much angst weighs down the casual juvenile nature of the series. And Serafinowicz inevitably pales in comparison to Patrick Warburton, who originated the live-action version of the character in 2001. ... The energy of the series noticeably improves once [antihero Overkill (Scott Speiser)] inserts himself into The Tick and Arthur’s adventures, in part because he provides a surly, pointed balance to our soft-hearted heroes.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
If The Tick lightened up any more, it might float away, and we'd gladly go along for the ride. [21 Aug - 3 Sep 2017, p.13]
IndieWireAug 25, 2017
Season 1 Review:
There are just too many notes and written in the wrong key. Arthur’s denial becomes tiresome after a few episodes and creates an adversarial relationship with The Tick. The two will likely get along by the end of Season 1, but that’s too much time wasted watching Arthur create his own obstacles to a better life. Worse yet, it bogs down a show that doesn’t listen to its own inspirational narrator.
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Aug 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
So there are moments, lines and characters that work. But in the big picture, this Tick’s core problem is that cape-oriented meta-commentary and deconstructions of superhero tropes are now pretty common, and these six installments take too long to get where they’re going.
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