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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
Apr 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Tiny Beautiful Things masterfully establishes Clare’s street cred as an expert on love, mistakes, regrets, and loss. Kathryn Hahn’s performance in this series is a straight-up revelation, a chaotic, unhinged, and gloriously messy portrayal of a damaged, big-hearted woman that effortlessly shifts between comedy and drama without missing a beat.
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ColliderMar 31, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This series feels like a gift. ... Much like Strayed’s gorgeous source material, Hulu's Tiny Beautiful Things uses specificity to offer commentary on universal experiences and has the unique ability to strip the most complex topics down into their simplest, most resonant parts.
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Apr 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The show ultimately packs a much bigger emotional wallop than might otherwise be suggested by either its its seemingly straightforward premise or slim 30-minute episode run times. ... Hahn’s poignant delivery makes the most of Clare’s full-hearted prose, much of it excerpted from Strayed’s actual Dear Sugar columns. The words hold power even before we’ve had a chance to warm to Clare herself, or to click to the show’s combination of gimlet-eyed clarity and unabashed sentiment.
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The Daily BeastMar 31, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Kathryn Hahn can do no wrong, and as Clare, she once again displays a breadth of tenderness, wit, and humanity. ... Although Tiny Beautiful Things does not follow the structure of the book at all, it is an honest adaptation of its spirit, making this a meaningful treat for fans of the book and newcomers alike.
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Apr 7, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Kathryn Hahn makes Tiny Beautiful Things a compelling watch, mainly because she’s so good at playing someone barely holding things together. But the rest of the series, especially the flashback sequences, give us a pretty full picture of why her character continues to spiral.
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Apr 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“Dear Sugar’s” unique advice takes a turn toward conventional life lessons near the end, and the sentimentality is a letdown. But thanks to Hahn and Pidgeon, and a whole load of great writing, “Tiny Beautiful Things” is for the most part a hard, faceted jewel of a TV show.
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Apr 6, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The events of “Tiny Beautiful Things” could easily make for a ponderous drama. But at eight half-hour episodes, the show is both lighter and more nimble than its synopsis might suggest. The downside of this approach is that the series’ source material can feel out of place in its own adaptation. ... The timelines of “Tiny Beautiful Things” are not as smoothly integrated, and suffer from the absence of the performance the show is otherwise shaped around. ... Hahn, however, holds up.
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Apr 5, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Somewhere en route from the "Dear Sugar" phenomenon to a collection of essays to a stage play and then a TV series, someone lost the plot. Or failed to formulate one. That someone, evidently, was creator and showrunner Liz Tigelaar, who has reduced the advice-columnist hook to a virtual afterthought and produced a wearying storyline that never quite arcs. ... The "payoff," such as it is, comes nowhere close to justifying the anguish of all eight episodes.
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