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- NBC
- Feb 12, 2015
- NBC
- Feb 12, 2015
Summary At Hector's (Peter Sarsgaard) 40th birthday party thrown by his wife, his cousin slaps another couple's child which causes secrets and turmoil amongst the family in the remake of the Australian series based on the novel by Christos Tsiolkas.
- NBC
- Feb 12, 2015
- NBC
- Feb 12, 2015
Summary At Hector's (Peter Sarsgaard) 40th birthday party thrown by his wife, his cousin slaps another couple's child which causes secrets and turmoil amongst the family in the remake of the Australian series based on the novel by Christos Tsiolkas.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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52% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
33% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 33 Critic Reviews
62
52% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
33% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
15% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
The best of The Slap feels like the jazz that Hector loves, riffing on themes instead of hitting them directly on the beat. It helps to have good to great performances all around.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 48 User Ratings
4.6
38% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
17% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
46% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 48 User Ratings
4.6
38% Positive
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
17% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
46% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
Unorthodox quirky little drama about a seemingly absurdly small premise/conflict which turns out to be only so on the surface. Sharp writing and good acting make this worth it if still somewhat overblown in its argument. What I liked most about this short run show was its jazzy tone.
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SEASON 1
A momentary lapse could lead to weeks of thought-provoking drama. The Slap echoes.
It’s well-acted while at times also being mis-directed in terms of storytelling and too many hit-over-the-head characterizations.
The Slap just misses being as sharp in the execution as it is in the concept.
The Slap has the ideas and the assembled talent to make a better, subtler character exploration, but it’s brought down by hamhanded characterization and an assemblage of bourgeois-Brooklyn types that it’s impossible (even for another bourgeois-Brooklyn type) to care about.
NBC's new miniseries The Slap is a heavy-handed, button-pushing, endlessly irritating drama about a family that slowly unravels after a man slaps another's obnoxious child at a family party.
It is not just the fact that the actual premise is interesting yet a tad silly, the important matter is that this single slap saved our main character from collapsing his own life over. Despite, I think they make up a big fuss over nothing; the kid was annoying and deserved it. So now just wait for the cliches to overflow and spoil this series.
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SEASON 1
I don't understand why the US re-made this series. The original book by Christos Tsiolkas is brilliant, as is the 2011 Australian TV series. While there is nothing particularly bad about the acting here, the characters are poorly drawn, and the direction is heavy-handed, leaving me as the audience little desire to invest in these characters or the remainder of the show. Additionally, a major underlying theme in the book and Australian TV series is a focus on race and class relations specific to Australian society. From viewing the first episode of the re-make, it feels that any adaptation of these themes appropriate to American society have been given short shrift for something that instead feels superficial and more like a soap opera than anything else.
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SEASON 1
I have been seeing the ads for this show so I tried to watch it. After about 1 minute I could see how the producers have taken a very serious issue and turned it into a joke. First you have to have decent actors. You cannot have a terrible child actor at the center of any show much less one with this serious of an issue for its basis. In the one minute I watched it showed a terribly spoiled little brat stomping around demanding something about a spear and the parents acting like the kid had just asked for the nuclear launch codes and their lives had ended. Please stop with the bad tv! This is why so many people are going to Netflix.
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SEASON 1
Thankfully this is a miniseries it will soon pass and they'll put something passable in its place. Such filth should not be on tv. Don't they have any sense come on . this is so boring it should have been pulled after second episode. I am totally amazed they didn't start a long protracted story like Revenge half way thru the second episode.
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