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Frayed
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 30, 2018
75
5.4
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Even when it meanders—perhaps especially so—the show is overflowing with it. It’s also funny, weird, and foul-mouthed, but more than anything it quietly makes you care fully about these characters and this quirky little world as it fans out to explore all of their individual stories.
Hopscotching across time zones, Frayed could have easily been unsatisfyingly muddled, but the humour had a wonderfully wry quality and Kendall excelled as a super-stressed woman trying to keep it together.
It’s a sweet, beautifully acted, and sometimes raunchy family dramedy.
The London-based actress and comedian—and the creator, writer and star of this six-episode import—[Sarah Kendall] is the principal reason to watch the series, which weighs in at three parts comedy, one part domestic drama. She can be both witheringly dry and vulnerable, often at the same time. ... She puts enough perverse tweaks on potentially saccharine conventions that the viewer will remain delightfully off-balance. Perhaps even delighted. Sometimes appalled.
There’s an element in this season of “Frayed” getting all its pieces in place. The closing moments of the finale feel like both the logical culmination of episodes’ worth of careful buildup and a gateway to an exciting chapter if the story continues. If it follows the steady path it’s already plotted out, “Frayed” has all the makings of something really special.
The comedic rhythm of the show is strong even when the overall structure sags. But Frayed is middling a lot of the time, especially when it comes to its emotional stakes and the more dramatic tensions that surface and then quickly flatten into an easy joke.
The first episode was unquestionably a slow burner. Sammy herself is as yet an uncharismatic central figure, and the liveliest characters so far have hardly even amounted to cameo performances. ... The undercurrents of unresolved rage and shame between mother and daughter tug at the attention. Not quite bonzer then, but no dag either.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.4
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Mixed
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29% Negative
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2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.4
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
29% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
- Create NSW
- Fulcrum Media Finance
- Guesswork Television
- Media Super
- Merman
- Sky UK
Initial Release Date: Nov 30, 2018
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 9 Nominations
Royal Television Society, UK
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
