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Megyn Kelly Today
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 25, 2017
39
1.4
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
39
0% Positive
0 Reviews
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67% Mixed
8 Reviews
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33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
39
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An hour of television that was by turns performatively wacky, stridently emotional, fun, awkward, informative, and weird.
Kelly's debut had an intensely cheery, manic first-date energy. ... Hair needs to be let down, but Kelly’s first hour gave no indication that this is a job she can’t learn.
Kelly herself tried to reframe her narrative, kicking off the show by giving a bit of history about herself. (Well, sort of. She never mentioned “Fox News” once.) It was perhaps the most honest part of the show, as Kelly recounted the death of her father when she was just a teenager. ... But the rest of Megyn Kelly Today remained a bit unfocused.
Kelly is now trying to show her softer side, but it manifests itself as intense squishiness. ... The entire cast of the network’s revived sitcom Will & Grace trotted out to submit to a long but skimpy interview. (By contrast, the interview the cast did with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb in the very next hour was far more relaxed and funny.) ... First-day jitters are understandable, and perhaps by the end of the week, Kelly won’t be contorting her face into a rictus grin. Perhaps she will allow for exchanges with the studio audience and with guests that don’t sound scripted.
Nervous and rushed. ... The ageless cast members [of Will & Grace], cramped into one loveseat, fielded a handful of lame questions from Kelly. ... The show’s final segment was a sop.
The host was so buried under cloying anecdotes and “cute” moments (her husband was in the audience and gave her roses!) that any appeal she might have naturally had was buried by carefully stage-managed artifice. ... In an interview with the cast and creators of NBC’s own “Will & Grace,” Kelly never established a relaxing rapport with them. ... In a later segment on a nun who works with young people and bereaved mothers in a low-income neighborhood in Chicago, Kelly again never quite connected with her subjects. The pre-taped piece had little depth.
The TV stars mostly stared and smiled at Kelly and tried to answer her dopey questions. It’s the one problem that has hounded Kelly even during Fox days--she’s just not good at talking to people or with people, instead of at people. The hour crawled by. A middle segment featured the “Today” regulars welcoming Kelly to 30 Rockefeller Center, a predawn festivity of studied smarm.
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 32 User Ratings
1.4
13% Positive
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88% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
User Score
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 32 User Ratings
1.4
13% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
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88% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
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Production Company:
- NBC News
Initial Release Date: Sep 25, 2017
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
