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- HBO
- Feb 21, 2016
- HBO
- Feb 21, 2016
Summary Tina Morris (Amanda Peet) moves in with her sister Michelle and her husband, and Brett (Melanie Lynskey and Mark Duplass) and Brett’s friend Alex (Steve Zissis).
Created By: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Steve Zissis
- HBO
- Feb 21, 2016
- HBO
- Feb 21, 2016
Summary Tina Morris (Amanda Peet) moves in with her sister Michelle and her husband, and Brett (Melanie Lynskey and Mark Duplass) and Brett’s friend Alex (Steve Zissis).
Created By: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Steve Zissis
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
73
75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Even if you can't technically improve on perfection, it's damn impressive to see these folks try.
As was true in season one, the first thing to notice about Togetherness--in addition to its spectacularly talented cast--is the amount of sophisticated wit the writers manage to dredge from standard sitcom craziness, the exuberance they wring out of emotional pain and everyday sodden travail.
The focus is never far from the very talented quartet at the show’s core: The assured second season offers the cast plenty of opportunities to demonstrate that they’ve got some of the best reaction faces in the business. There’s just enough plot to force the characters to glance at each other and alternately avoid each other’s glares and curiosity.
A small pleasure. [19/26 Feb 2016, p.110]
This season’s determination to be bleak and honest isn't as pleasurable. The series is very good at what it does, but I can’t help thinking that more Gonzaga, Peet and Gallagher--in upbeat story form--would go exceptionally well with less dire versions of the excellent Lynskey, Zissis and Duplass.
Togetherness is a likable enough show about likable enough characters portrayed by very likable actors. Lynskey and Zissis, in particular, portray mundane and exhausting sadness so believably that you want to reach into your screen and give them a hug. But the same can’t be said of Togetherness as a whole.
Much of the new season’s happiness and levity is whimsical and spur-of-the-moment (and the moments of sojourn, reverie, and revelry are visually sumptuous). They are earned as much as the sadness is, though their time is so much more fleeting. What’s left is that most of the dark, awkward, painful, naval-gazing realness of the rest of the season fosters less of a sense of universal togetherness, and more of a desire to retreat away completely.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
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76% Positive
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