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The PlaylistJun 4, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Whatever your expectations from the show’s general premise of “all-female punk band struggle to reconcile their personalized interpretations of Islam while also emphasizing their commitment to the music and to each other,” the lively, funny, and lovely “We Are Lady Parts” (streaming on Peacock as of June 3) will exceed them.
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ColliderJun 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
You can feel the plot straining at the confines of just six episodes, and an easy solution would be for someone to please, for the love of little green apples, greenlight a second season. Because what We Are Lady Parts does well, it does extremely well, and its infectious spirit and charming characters deserve a chance to play on.
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May 30, 2024
Season 2 Review:
We Are Lady Parts in no way suffers from second-album syndrome. The new episodes are as funny, catchy, and endearing as the first batch. Whether they would be this good without the gap, or if Manzoor wound up needing this extra time, she has found ways to deepen the characters and their relationships without messing with what worked in mid-pandemic days.
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Jun 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It’s a lot sharper, and more humane and ambitious, than so many of the comedies that come across “my desk.” ... The six half-hour episodes are a triumph of reach and representation as they make each of the band members, as well as their families and friends, into unpredictable characters who, like most of the real people I’ve met, are faceted and contradictory. You can’t easily pigeonhole any of them.
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Jun 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
For all its familiar touchstones, We Are Lady Parts also feels like something I haven’t quite seen before, in the same way that Fleabag felt. ... Another major We Are Lady Parts asset is its music. ... What’s so special about this series is that it’s impossible to pigeonhole anyone or anything in it.
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The Daily BeastJun 3, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The season as a whole has some weirder, wilder passages than its more setup-heavy predecessor. .... The lack of a clear answer may account for the way We Are Lady Parts itself moves between ebullient semi-fantasy and hard truths within the space of 25-minute episodes. It’s fascinating to watch a show that seems to actually (at least occasionally) mistrust its own feel-great ambitions. Or maybe, like the band, Manzoor is finding a new way into the pop-punk form.
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May 30, 2024
Season 2 Review:
On another show, conversations about community or representation might come across as self-important or heavy-handed. Here, it’s just the organic output of characters who are curious enough to ask, bold enough to act, humble enough to listen and witty enough to make it fun for the rest of us watching as they figure it out.
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May 29, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The challenges of making it are superficially familiar from other music stories: What is selling out? How do you distinguish growth from compromise? Can you make it big without abandoning any of your mates? But the execution and the details are captivatingly specific. What works about “We Are Lady Parts” is what works about great punk. You can still fashion something new out of the same old three chords. You just need a distinctive voice.
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Jun 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
We Are Lady Parts is not always laugh-out-loud funny, but it’s sharp and quick witted, with Manzoor’s writing and the zesty style (some episodes emphasize Amina’s overactive imagination, bringing her daydreams to visual life with lots of pink and the occasional puppet) elevating the comedic moments. The performances — dynamic, confident, seamless in hitting different emotional beats — also add to the show’s affecting quality.
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The GuardianMay 20, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The silliness can get a bit one-note, and the jokes don’t always land. But the main characters and the strength of their sisterhood are beautifully drawn, and the original songs, written by Manzoor and her two siblings, are hilarious. ... Its silliness is its strength.
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The TelegraphMay 30, 2024
Season 2 Review:
It never quite catches light like series one. I think it’s because We Are Lady Parts was always Amina’s story, whereas now everyone gets a solo (and denizens of late-night jazz clubs know what that means). The result is a series that’s about so much – diversity, identity, ageing, friendship – that it’s no longer sure what it’s really about.
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