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Critic Reviews
Aug 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Between the thoughtfulness with which the series tells the story of Wrexham’s everyday supporters, the light touch it takes when incorporating the club’s players and staff, and the winking ribbing it weaves through all the “Ryan and Rob” bits as an exercise to keep them from coming off as too self-serious or driven by ego, Welcome to Wrexham has set itself up to turn in one of the more engaging, down-to-earth, funny sports stories in recent memory.
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Sep 11, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It probably helps to be a sports fan and it probably helps to like the two protagonists in the first place, but it’s also true that none of that is necessary. When the adornments are stripped, only the telling of the story remains, and I’m not sure there’s another show out there, fiction or non, that tells it better.
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Aug 23, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The beauty is, it works wonderfully. ... There’s nothing cynical about the show, but nor is this a gawpy real-life Ted Lasso with clockwork tearjerker scenes. And somehow, this direct, honest approach makes the whole production more affecting than it might otherwise be.
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May 2, 2024
Season 3 Review:
In short, Welcome to Wrexham remains a brilliant watch, and the remarkable story of what McElhenney and Reynolds have done with the club hasn’t lost any of its luster. There are pitfalls galore here, but they sidestep them with great artistic agility, and the allure of this strange, compelling experiment resonates more than ever before.
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ColliderMay 2, 2024
The GuardianSep 13, 2023
Season 2 Review:
You fear for manager Phil Parkinson if he can’t keep getting promoted: one mid-table finish and he could be out, not for lack of footballing nous but because he’s not established an entertaining TV persona. .... Just as they have saved the club financially, however, Reynolds and McElhenney can always lend the show their star power. Now they have help on that front as the opening episode’s centrepiece sees King Charles III visit the stadium.
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Sep 11, 2023
Season 2 Review:
They [Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney] strike a nice balance between giving a damn and offering the right kind of non-meddling support (which includes opening their wallets when needed). More importantly, Welcome to Wrexham is generally good TV, and it continues to home in on worthy tales within the bigger story.
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Sep 8, 2023
Season 2 Review:
For a show based on the tensions involved in moving a team up the arcane ladder of English football, one can discover the denouement merely by reading the sports pages. But that would ruin the fun, which is considerable—the king's visit prompts the team owners to take an etiquette class, which can't not be amusing. And while the program is ostensibly a soccer show, it isn't just about competition but community, obsession, addiction (to sports) and the very personal stories of very nice people.
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The Daily BeastSep 1, 2022
Season 1 Review:
If you found Ted Lasso too cloying to watch, Welcome to Wrexham might be more enjoyable, as it’s a less-dopey version of the same story. But all Ted Lasso viewers—or football/soccer fans in general—will appreciate Welcome to Wrexham as a pacifier while we wait for Season 3.
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May 3, 2024
Aug 24, 2022The TelegraphMay 16, 2025
Season 4 Review:
The whiff of stage management often pervades proceedings. A few scenes are billed as “reconstructions”. Some conversations feel set up. .... The places where the camera can’t lie are on the pitch, in the stands and on the streets. That’s where Welcome to Wrexham truly bursts into life. Match footage is electric.
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Aug 25, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Welcome to Wrexham desperately wants to position itself as "the real 'Ted Lasso,'" but that's only part of what's going on in this FX docuseries, in which Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a struggling Welsh soccer team. The resulting series is a little of this, a bit of that, and like its featured franchise, plays more like a wannabe than a true contender.
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The IndependentSep 7, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Welcome to Wrexham, in its attempt to serve two masters – those who understand the offside rule and those who couldn’t pick Gareth Bale out of a line-up – ends up feeling blandly corporate. With the mud-and-blood world of non-league football at its mercy, that feels like missing an open goal.
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