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Critic Reviews
Jun 6, 2016
Season 2 Review:
UnREAL is as hard-boiled and adventuresome as any male-dominated, gritty, “dark” premium-cable show you’d care to throw an Emmy at. The performances by Zimmer and Appleby are amazingly nuanced and layered, especially for a show whose gimmick, Everlasting, insists upon the superficiality of women’s images of themselves.
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Jun 3, 2016
Season 2 Review:
You want to spend time here, to see what the characters do and say, rather than high-tail it at the earliest opportunity alongside the newest crew of rejected contestants. The series can be enjoyed on a higher, premium-cable-quality plane, particularly when it comes the destructive female friendship at its core, but it’s also a whipped-cream blast full of prickly dialogue and verbal take-downs.
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Jun 1, 2015
Season 1 Review:
UnReal is simultaneously a very dark satire of reality TV and a soap opera that breathes new life into old tropes by placing them in this very familiar, modern setting. The story of the making of a show like this is ultimately far more exciting than the shows themselves seem to be.
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Jun 6, 2016
Season 2 Review:
UnREAL’s early episodes leave those questions [Will Ruby and Rachel team up to make Everlasting a show that is about more than performative romance? Or will one betray the other? Will Ruby be ruined by reality TV, as so many before her have ... or will she harness the power of “reality” to improve reality?] tantalizingly open, with characters, and its plots, that are elastic and complicated enough to accommodate many possibilities.
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Jun 3, 2016
Season 2 Review:
Appleby and Zimmer continue to deliver strong and funny lead performances playing two of TV's most outspoken and prickly characters. And with a fine new suitor comes a fresh and engaging new group of wifeys, blifeys and villains. Catching up on the first season is recommended, but you could almost just jump in fresh for the summer pleasure, no guilt here, that is UnREAL.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 3, 2016
Season 2 Review:
This dishy delight is a guilt-free pleasure. [6-19 Jun 2016, p.19]
Jun 3, 2016
May 28, 2015
Jun 6, 2016
Season 2 Review:
Despite the exciting reboot, UnREAL still falls short of the expectations set by Rachel and Quinn, because their relationship is more crystallized than anything else on the show. Everlasting’s production process remains as frustratingly opaque as its contestants, and it isn’t always enough that the vagueness gives Rachel and Quinn a wide-open playing field for their mind games.
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Jul 20, 2018
Season 4 Review:
Yes, it stumbles out of the gate and meanders for a while. But it gradually returns, confidently and furiously, to its greatest strengths: an insider’s indictment of the reality TV-making process and a candidly complicated exploration of female mentorship in a male-run industry.
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Feb 26, 2018
Season 3 Review:
Serena isn’t as compelling a protagonist as either Everlasting or UnREAL needs, but her Tracy Flick-like machinations throw a series of unprecedented wrenches into the production that, in turn, prompts crises that test the people who make the show--in particular Rachel and Quinn.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 4, 2015
Season 1 Review:
UnReal is most enjoyable when its nasty and least convincing when its doling out soap-opera subplots. [8 Jun 2015, p.13]
IndieWireJul 24, 2018
Season 4 Review:
The final moments of UnREAL bring with them an over-the-top, operatic feel, one that pushes every strain of believability but, in the grand scheme of things, feels pretty fitting. It’s a farewell that brings with it the satisfaction of slapping your toxic ex in the face, a knowledge that sometimes it’s not just enough for things to end. Sometimes, you just gotta burn it all down.
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IndieWireFeb 21, 2018
Season 3 Review:
Socially and politically, it’s rather tame. Now is the time to tackle sexism in the workplace, the humanizing effects of reality television, or any number of big issues UnREAL is uniquely positioned to skewer, but even within its basic story, there are clumsy mistakes.
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Feb 23, 2018
Season 3 Review:
There’s always a little acting to dating, and on The Bachelor, there’s some dating to the acting. By diving into these issues, UnReal seems to have solved the problem of the show within the show. The new season of Everlasting isn’t crazily exaggerated. ... But behind the scenes, things are still needlessly insane.
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