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Critic Reviews
Aug 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The tongue-in-cheek tone can be tricky. But beginning with the opening credits, which is set against the Frank Sinatra classic “L.O.V.E.” and pulpy comic book scenes, Why Women Kill gets the tone just right. Cherry knows how to make social commentary while making us laugh and take a discerning eye to our lives. The series is funny. ... And the stellar cast pulls it off.
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Aug 26, 2019
Season 1 Review:
“Why Women Kill” feels more comfortably familiar than recycled or old. There’s never a question of why we should care about any of these characters. Cherry and the performers make us care about all of their fates, even that of uptight, prissy Beth Ann and shallow, self-centered Simone. Goodwin and Liu may be camping up their performances, but they also take care to grant them enough humanity for the viewer to invest in what happens to each, or in what they do. Howell-Baptiste is also wonderful, although she purposefully makes Taylor harder to read than her co-stars’ women.
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IndieWireAug 15, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Thus far, the ’60s plotline appears to be the most emotional, the ’80s the most humorous, and the contemporary the most confusing. It remains to be seen if the end result of all this intrigue will be satisfying, but for now, the series’ arch tone and visual splendor are enough to stick around for the ride.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The most compelling subplot is set in the present day, exploring the eruption in lawyer Taylor's open marriage to laid-back Eli when she brings home a playmate. [19 Aug - 1 Sep 2019, p.13]
Aug 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If you’ve been missing “Desperate Housewives,” the new CBS All Access show “Why Women Kill,” debuting Aug. 15, is the series you’ve been waiting to see. But if you were over “Desperate Housewives” before it finished its eight-season run, well, “Why Women Kill” is kind of more of the same.
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Aug 19, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While Why Women Kill has nuanced leads, the show stumbles in its use of high camp. It’s a stylistic choice that adds levity but that allows the show—at least in the first two episodes made available to critics—to avoid interrogating the realities that drive its characters to take extreme measures.
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TV Guide MagazineJun 3, 2021
Season 2 Review:
The ensuing lurid shenanigans are cartoonish to a campy extreme, and it's hard to care who'll end up killing whom in their venal, petty squabbles. Only Alma's plus-size daughter Dee, who falls for battle-scarred PI snooping into everyone's very dirty laundry, is worth rooting for. [7 - 20 Jun 2021, p.7]
Aug 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Why Women Kill is akin to an overly complicated craft cocktail, boasting an intriguing brightness, namely in the form of Goodwin’s performance, but lacking balance in its competing flavors. It’s full of baffling tonal and narrative decisions that undermine what does work about the show.
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Aug 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The three stories track along efficiently yet predictably in the two episodes made available for critics. While the show exhibits a degree of Cherry’s colorful and quietly campy command of that fine line that separates a soap opera from a serious drama, something has been lost since the “Desperate Housewives” days.
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