Tiny Beautiful Things

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 7, 2023
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14

Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Lucy Mangan
    Apr 7, 2023
    60
    If you’re a Strayed fan, or you’re in the mood for a good cry, enjoy. Otherwise, it is purgatory of quite a different kind.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Apr 13, 2023
    50
    It describes emotions rather than developing them, and elevates platitude to a dramatic principle. Hahn, a skilled comic actress, is especially poorly served by the show’s jumbling of tones.
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Apr 5, 2023
    40
    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.