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Naomi
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 11, 2022
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6.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Naomi does manage to stand out by virtue of being one of the most character-focused superhero endeavors to date. Presuming it continues on that path, there’s a lot of promise in store.
It does seem like Naomi is going to take its sweet time to explore its main character’s story. And that’s just fine with us, especially if it gives us more time to get to know what seems like an anomaly on TV these days, which is a teenager with her head on straight and a strong desire to find out more about herself.
This one’s a winner thanks to an incredibly likable lead character, skate-boarding, comic book-loving Naomi (a winning Kaci Walfall).
It’s refreshing to see a high-schooler who’s a smart, driven academic success and is also universally liked, and who’s popular but not a queen bee or mean-girl type. Naomi is mighty wholesome, with its pansexual flirtations and warmly supportive, non-competitive central female friendship. But that also makes Naomi feel a bit too perfect to be real.
I’m going to go so far as to say that nothing that happens early in Naomi is really all that fun or interesting. What makes the show work is that all of the central performances are gawky and charming and, for the most part, less CW-polished than I would have expected, in a good way. There isn’t a standout performance, other than Walfall’s appealing lead turn, but the bickering and loose bantering is all quite natural.
Essentially, Naomi joins the list of teen-with-a-destiny dramas -- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comes to mind, a relic of the CW's origins -- in which the audience either buys into the soapy aspects or zaps through the at-school diversions to get to the good parts. For those who lean toward the latter, first impressions suggest the series could be a long slog.
“Naomi” still has a lot of road to travel before the effort can be fully measured, but it’s nonetheless admirable how it uses the DC universe to center the story on a Black teen girl, offering a perspective rarely given focus while telling a different kind of superhero story.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 52 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
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13% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 52 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
13% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
27% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
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Production Company:
- ARRAY Filmworks
- DC Entertainment
- Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: Jan 11, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
