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Critic Reviews
Jan 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Tidying Up with Marie Kondo will convince the most cynical among us that it’s reasonable to derive joy from every single thing in your house, and that anything you’re hanging onto that doesn’t provoke a joy reaction should be seriously held to account. ... What’s interesting about Tidying Up is that it isn’t especially voyeuristic--and that seems to be what makes it work.
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Jan 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There’s something about the way in which Kondo explains the goals of her exercises that gets her clients to open up. This is the key difference between Tidying Up and most other reality shows: There’s no sense of competition, and the ostensible makeover at the heart of every episode simply involves regular people becoming happier and more at ease in their own home.
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Jan 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Considering that this show is the literal equivalent of watching other people clean their houses, something I barely want to do myself, it is far more absorbing and interesting than I expected. ... You don’t want to recognize yourself in these “untidy” people who can’t bear to part with maternity clothes or high-school notes or the 85th nutcracker they collected. But you will.
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Jan 2, 2019
Season 1 Review:
By eschewing the typical extreme-makeover excesses, the highest-high inspirations and lowest-low humiliations that we’re used to from our reality television, Tidying Up showcases a kind of gentle moderation that should make its star proud--and leave everyone else mildly underwhelmed.
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Jan 7, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The show is decent company if you’re just sitting there folding the laundry, and you will be folding it with unprecedented panache--conveying “love to your clothes from the palms of your hands,” Kondo says--if you follow her teachings. Tidying Up is mindless television on the topic of mindful domesticity.
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The GuardianDec 3, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Kondo is not a fraud – she’s genuinely good at tidying and she does have other tips – but it is hard to see the life-changing magic in, for example, reorganising a drawer by placing smaller shallow boxes inside it. The best moments in the show happen between the reconnecting householders in Kondo’s absence. ... There’s a bit of Netflix bloat, too, with the opening episode running well over the typical half-hour limit.
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