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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineNov 5, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Wonderful. ... Dean's adolescent adventures, sharply narrated by Don Cheadle as the wry voice of adult Dean, are amusing. [8 - 21 Nov 2021, p.9]
TV Guide MagazineJun 29, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Tackling thorny racial issues with nostalgic grace and humor is this Wonder Years' specialty. It needs a bigger spotlight. [3 - 23 Jul 2023, p.6]
Jun 15, 2023
Season 2 Review:
We’ve gotten to know the Williams family and their circle of friends, as well as the crowd that Dean runs with in school, which is at the heart of what makes this version of The Wonder Years so enjoyable. We’re happy we can finally spend some more time with them, over a year since Season 1 ended.
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Sep 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This look back through time leans more intense toward joy than sorrow. Don Cheadle's gentle narration as adult Dean sets and maintains that tone, although Dulé Hill's calm, fatherly presence as Dean's father Bill, a musician who works as a professor to pay the bills, solidifies the show's kindness. Really, though, this entire cast harmonizes beautifully. ... Seeing that play out in this new "Wonder Years" has a purpose, dispensed with the fuzziness of distant memory. One suspects not everyone will be in the mood for its cozy approach.
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Sep 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There’s a lot of promise here; the child actors are great finds, and the adult cast — featuring Saycon Sengbloh as Dean’s mother and Allen Maldonado as his baseball coach — evince a roundedness that you hope will mean story lines dedicated to their characters, too. ... One thing’s for sure: You’ll want to return to this world.
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Sep 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This is an evidently big-hearted show whose pilot has great fundamentals but tries to juggle a bit more than it realistically can in less than half an hour. That’s suggestive of ambition, which makes a viewer hope this show finds its voice and its pace in the coming weeks. That desire to do and say more is so rare on TV nowadays that “The Wonder Years” feels, for reasons beyond its setting, like an ultimately welcome dispatch from the distant past.
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IndieWireOct 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“The Wonder Years” is a delightful series that should appeal to both fans of the original series as well as a new generation who have never watched the show. Williams, Hill, Sengbloh, and Kariuki have a wonderful chemistry, and they could very well be on their way to becoming the next great American television family.
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Sep 21, 2021
Season 1 Review:
[The original] was more sweet than outright hilarious, one of the few things the two shows have in common. The old show was escapist, sure, the new one is not, but the inevitable question is why a network remakes a show in a way that largely ignores the charms of the original. ... Whether the new “Wonder Years” is a show for our times—or any—will have everything to do with whether it continues to be so utterly predictable.
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