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- Apple TV+
- Jul 10, 2020
- Apple TV+
- Jul 10, 2020
Summary 20-something aspiring singer Bess King (Brittany O'Grady) juggles life in New York City, love and her dreams in this dramedy from J.J. Abrams, Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson.
Created By: Sara Bareilles, Jessie Nelson
- Apple TV+
- Jul 10, 2020
- Apple TV+
- Jul 10, 2020
Summary 20-something aspiring singer Bess King (Brittany O'Grady) juggles life in New York City, love and her dreams in this dramedy from J.J. Abrams, Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson.
Created By: Sara Bareilles, Jessie Nelson
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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50% Positive
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9 Reviews
39% Mixed
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7 Reviews
11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
60
50% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
While it often crosses the line into saccharine, “Little Voice” is an engine of joy, driven by great music and even catchier, unforgettable characters.
Little Voice is a sweet, warm-hearted show, filled with natural performances and dotted with lovely songs. Its general willingness to leave story threads dangling makes the viewer feel she’s been dropped into a true-ish tale of modern bohemia.
Some of Little Voice‘s saccharine might get you in a grumpy mood, but Bareilles’ music and O’Grady’s performance will help with alleviate those grumpies pretty quickly.
Really, the show might well have been called “Everybody Loves Bess (but Bess).” All this adoration will create tension and conflict and episodes of inchoate moodiness among them, of an almost secondary-school intensity, and at times expressed exactly in the terms of a music video — which is to say, there is an audience for it.
There’s little enough realism intruding on “Little Voice,” though, to make it something of an escapist treat, and a musical one. ... It’s uncertain, though, whether “Little Voice” can overcome its inconsistencies. ... [Louie's] also something of a bad stereotype, as an obsessive-compulsive musical-theater buff who is rendered unemployable by his temperament. Bess the character has a similar problem, though it engenders less sympathy.
Nelson and Bareilles leave no cliche unexplored in their efforts to manufacture some dramatic tension. When their first attempt – Bess's crippling stage fright and a laughably unbelievable tendency to tell dad jokes onstage – proves too flimsy, their ambition grows.
Little Voice is little short of a horror show.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
6.5
67% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 User Ratings
6.5
67% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
17% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
17% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
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