- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 19, 2019
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There’s room for optimism, because there are plenty of stories to be told, and given time, this cast may grow into them. It’s a low-key sort of fantasy, the idea of one-time strangers becoming a found family in an urban jungle. But fantasy stories have a way of feeding the soul.
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Fine performances go a long way to mitigating the corniness the show actively courts.
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“The Village” is certainly better and more ambitious than “Rise,” but it’s no “This Is Us.” Often, “This Is Us” comes by its emotional moments believably and naturally. For its lack of subtlety, “The Village” would be more aptly titled “All! The! Feels!”
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Treacly, by-the-numbers prime-time tear-jerker that even Brooklyn and a good cast can't elevate. And viewers won't mind in the least.
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If that actually does sound like a reason you watch TV [to cry uncontrollably for an hour every week], then The Village has been precision-designed in a laboratory for your pleasure. If, however, you're allergic to overt manipulation even in the hands of a reasonably talented cast and thoroughly admirable production values, best to give this one the widest of berths. It's a never-ending hamster wheel of tears.
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The main problem is The Village feels like it's trying too hard -- as if the show was developed specifically to try replicating the warm fuzzies that its lead-in, "This is Us," regularly delivers, transparently wrapped in a "family is what you make of it" message.
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The writers of Village make the mistake of confusing emotion with quality. It's not enough just to feel; you have to do something with those feelings, too.
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The Village veers all over the map and does not boast actors capable of selling all of the lines they’re given. The Village’s idiosyncracies, then, come to seem studied and affected, and its moments of connection like rudimentary and naked bits of manipulation.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 10
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Mixed: 3 out of 10
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Negative: 3 out of 10
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Apr 18, 2019