White Famous

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 15, 2017
User Score
3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 24
  3. Negative: 13 out of 24
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  1. dell221
    May 11, 2018
    2
    tried to watch this show it is just not funny like most comedians trying to do a comedy they try way to hard. I don't know if this guy has funny stand up or what but his acting skills are terrible. I see why this show got canceled after 1 season. how is Jamie Foxx in this and it still sucks? I think this guy is on Saturday night live. a show that just sucks badly and needs to be put out totried to watch this show it is just not funny like most comedians trying to do a comedy they try way to hard. I don't know if this guy has funny stand up or what but his acting skills are terrible. I see why this show got canceled after 1 season. how is Jamie Foxx in this and it still sucks? I think this guy is on Saturday night live. a show that just sucks badly and needs to be put out to pasture.… Expand
  2. NancyA
    Feb 16, 2018
    7
    The most brilliant performances are by the visiting players: Tobolowsky, Foxx &, funniest of all, Jack Davenport. I agree with the NYTimes reviewer with regard to the facile plot resolution. The star doesnt have the chops to keep up with his supporting cast. The child is not directed effectively, and his role comes off as false. Likewise the idealized parents. Fantastic soundtrack.
  3. RMoore1138
    Feb 3, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Racist "comedians" are neither funny or original. This is just another attempt at comedy by a dime a dozen comedian relying on race to elevate his career.… Expand

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#58 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Oct 16, 2017
    12
    White Famous is so corrosive that it ends up fighting itself. The self-loathing here is the type that’s common to so many Hollywood satires, filled with the requisite pythons and soul crushers who keep the sausage factory conveyor belt moving. But much of this goes beyond loathing to self-lacerating. ... Awful.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Oct 16, 2017
    60
    It feels altogether too on-the-nose, a rigged game in which almost all the points are awarded to Floyd. ... Pharoah, an "SNL" veteran who has not done much straight acting, pulls his weight throughout, but working with Rapaport, as with Coleman and the low-key excellent Jacob Ming-Trent as Floyd's wisdom-dispensing friend and roommate Ron Balls, lifts him to that vaunted next level.
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Oct 16, 2017
    30
    The show carries itself as a blast of revelatory fresh air. But everything about it is stale.
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