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High Fidelity
Season 1 Premiere: Feb 14, 2020
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7.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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25% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
70
71% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
25% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Empathetic, textured, funny, surprising, and affectionate reimagining.
The series sets up myriad intriguing possibilities and wows with enough stellar soundtrack songs and pop culture-laden dialogue to keep us on the hook for more. By the final episodes, the previous High Fidelity seems less like a copied original and more like an inspired springboard to enable a more engaging character to improve her life and herself.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
8% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
21% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
8% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
21% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
The best crafted and most thoughtful show I’ve seen in this genre. It’s so unusual to get a character study with such riveting characters that’s still enjoyable. I love the plot, dialogue, characters and music. What more to ask? For anyone that loves music or love. Which means everyone, because if you don’t love either, you might want to think about that...
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“High Fidelity”—both then and now—is about the timeless, vicarious narrative charms of any secret society/gang/club/superhero team. The insiders are outsiders and eccentrics who possess superpowers. In “High Fidelity,” the superpowers are in their ears. Their consequent oddities and obsessions only make them more endearing. Ms. Kravitz is particularly so, most of the time. ... If nothing else, the show drops its needle on a certain millennial hipster groove, without losing touch with its Gen X ancestor.
Rob is arguably the quintessential John Cusack role, but Kravitz winningly steps into those shoes. ... Even if this TV mixtape of High Fidelity misses some fundamental ideas behind the source material, it's still a delight. [Feb 2020, p.86]
High Fidelity has many charms. But it does also have a recurring dissonance, a bunch of vestigial generational and dude behaviors that make the record skip.
The creators of this "High Fidelity" TV series fail to expand on the material to the point where 10 episodes can be sustained.
Nearly every major decision, from the premise to the casting to the grueling callbacks to the film, is a fumble. The show isn't just unnecessary; it's a largely soulless cover that doesn't understand what made the original distinctive. Perhaps most dispiritingly, the marvelous wit and poignancy of the two episodes whose storylines appear to be wholly invented by the show's writers suggest that a great deal of talent was wasted on trying to give life to a seemingly DOA concept.
I've read the book and seen the movie, and love this take. Zoe Kravitz and the amazing cast bring these flawed humans who are getting through their days while trying to get to a better state of being to life in such a vivid way. You really feel the intensity and heartbreak and humor of these characters, who are shown to be kind and loving and broken and sometimes **** who just make mistakes and try to learn. Kinda like actual people, huh? The music choices add a whole different level of experience, brilliant selections without overpowering the performances or manipulating the viewer. Loved every moment!
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Fairly disappointed with the show, given the cast. The silver lining is Kravitz, her screen presence is magnetic and has a whole lot of charisma, she makes the whole thing watchable. Maybe with better material this could’ve contended with the film. Unfortunately this is not the case, the show feels like a ripoff most of the time, there’s not a lot of originality going on. It’s more of a mediocre remake of the movie with same roles but different actors. Sad to see the show take this route.
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Nothing is sacred anymore is it..what a complete pile of cr*p. Just watch the excellent original film with the talented John Cusack and forget this made for cry baby millennials version.
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Production Company:
- ABC Signature
- Midnight Radio
Initial Release Date: Feb 14, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
