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Series Details & Credits
| HULU | Release Date: November 22, 2022 |
Summary:
The limited darkly comedic crime drama series created by Robert Siegel chronicles how Indian immigrant Somen "Steve" Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani) created The Chippendales and the deadly actions he took against potential competitors.
Creator:
Robert D. Siegel
Genre(s):
Comedy, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Recent Episodes
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S1:E8. Switzerland
Air Date: January 3, 2023
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S1:E7. Paper Is Paper
Air Date: December 27, 2022
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S1:E6. February 31st
Air Date: December 20, 2022
Positive:
14
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
Nov 17, 2022
The Daily Beast
Nov 21, 2022
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Jan 11, 2023
Nov 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Instead of fulfilling its potential for greatness, Chippendales settles for being merely good—and is sure to leave some viewers with the uncomfortable sense of having delighted in a dramatization of real people’s death and heartbreak. But its true-crime exploitation quotient doesn’t even approach that of Ryan Murphy’s recent smash Dahmer—Monster or the Renée-Zellweger-fat-suit burlesque of The Thing About Pam.
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RogerEbert.com
Nov 21, 2022
The Guardian
Jan 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The sleaze, glamour and general air of excess that hung about the 80s is nicely captured, and all eight episodes can be easily binged. But you do long for some depth, some nuance, and perhaps an actor less fundamentally gentle than Kumail Nanjiani, who might have captured more convincingly the darkness lurking in Banerjee’s soul.
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Nov 21, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Over eight 45ish minute installments, the miniseries never quite works its way to a distinctive tone or style or perspective, and never finds all that much to say about what it’s showing us beyond some vague clichés about greed, pride and the immigrant experience. ... There’s a difference between buying the right stuff, and knowing what to do with it. Welcome to Chippendales, sadly, doesn’t know what to do with it.
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Mar 29, 2023
A very well structured, funny series. Kumail plays well, but so do the other actors.
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Jan 10, 2023
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Nov 23, 2022
Kumail Nanjiani can't act, he always plays himself, a very weak lead ruins an otherwise interesting series
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: November 22, 2022
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S1:E8. Switzerland
Air Date: January 3, 2023
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S1:E7. Paper Is Paper
Air Date: December 27, 2022
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S1:E6. February 31st
Air Date: December 20, 2022
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S1:E5. Leeches
Air Date: December 13, 2022
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S1:E4. Just Business
Air Date: December 6, 2022
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S1:E3. Velveeta
Air Date: November 29, 2022
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S1:E2. Four Geniuses
Air Date: November 22, 2022
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S1:E1. An Elegant, Exclusive Atmosphere
Air Date: November 22, 2022
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Season 1 Overview