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- Peacock
- Mar 14, 2024
- Peacock
- Mar 14, 2024
Summary Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) Delaney are set to retire and spend more time with their four adult children (Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner, and Essie Randles) but then Joy suddenly disappears, and family secrets are revealed in this adaptation of Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name.
- Peacock
- Mar 14, 2024
- Peacock
- Mar 14, 2024
Apples Never Fall
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 14, 2024
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Summary Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) Delaney are set to retire and spend more time with their four adult children (Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner, and Essie Randles) but then Joy suddenly disappears, and family secrets are revealed in this adaptation of Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
55
32% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
18% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
What unfurls is Faulkernesque as we see Joy via her family’s flashbacks. She powers the plot but does so mostly in her absence as we see her from others’ points of view. .... Bening never lets Joy fade. She is powerful when she needs to be, vulnerable and pensive all at once.
The character studies of all involved are superior, yet it’s the older generation that really goes to town here.
The only thing that keeps Apples Never Fall from being yet another eye-rolling show about wealthy people being terrible is Annette Bening’s performance as a woman who is still looking for something, even in retirement.
The show doesn’t have anything to say about these nuances of money and class that most assuredly would gnaw at strivers like Joy and Stan, which ends up dulling the story’s more potentially interesting edges.
Will it hit with the impact of its stars’ previous successes? Likely not. It has a bit less going on overall. But it paints an interesting enough family portrait to stare at for a while.
But for most of Apples Never Fall’s seven episodes, the Delaneys feel like they were pulled off a rack. From all their soul-searching, revelations, and regrets, they emerge barely worn, nearly unwrinkled.
Apples Never Fall wastes a supremely talented cast—including the great Annette Bening, who was just up for an Oscar a few days ago—on a show that is essentially two mildly interesting bookend episodes, with a whole bunch of rotten apple mush sandwiched between.
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