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Roadies

Summary The comedy from Cameron Crowe focuses on the road crew for the arena rock band that includes tour manager Bill (Luke Wilson), production manager Shelli (Carla Gugino), road manager Phil (Ron White), electric tech Kelly Ann (Imogen Poots), Kelly Ann's twin Jesse (Colson Baker aka Machine Gun Kelly), sound mixer Donna (Keisha Castle-Hughes...

Created By: Cameron Crowe

  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • SHOWTIME
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • SHOWTIME

Roadies

Season 1 Premiere: 2016
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
47
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 63 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary The comedy from Cameron Crowe focuses on the road crew for the arena rock band that includes tour manager Bill (Luke Wilson), production manager Shelli (Carla Gugino), road manager Phil (Ron White), electric tech Kelly Ann (Imogen Poots), Kelly Ann's twin Jesse (Colson Baker aka Machine Gun Kelly), sound mixer Donna (Keisha Castle-Hughes...

Created By: Cameron Crowe

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
47
17% Positive
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63% Mixed
19 Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 30 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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63% Mixed
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20% Negative
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90
Jun 25, 2016
Whether you grew up with the Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen or the Foo Fighters, Roadies and its lovably immature collection of flakes will summon the pure giddy fun of rock and roll. As they used to say on another great rockin' TV show, I'd give it an 85—it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 24, 2016
At its best, Roadies is an entertaining ride through a world we're not meant to see, and its characters' belief in the importance of what they're doing can be contagious. ... Like Sorkin, Crowe may sometimes love his characters too much for their own good.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 27, 2016
Roadies could level out as it continues through its first season, learning to balance its more mawkish, sentimental aspects with its clear dedication to music as art and the people who work to preserve its purity. But in its current state, the show is a lumpy, bumpy ride, one that will wholly appeal to those who ever Crowe’s most cloying works but only intermittently cast a spell over everyone else.
By Isaac Feldberg FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 23, 2016
Roadies, with its cutesy characters, doesn’t bring him back to his early glory so much as remind us how far he has drifted from it. Crowe’s bona fides do show in Roadies, in the elaborate backstage settings and in the way they’re filmed as a kind of amusement park ride.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 24, 2016
The characters are corny--Bill's a rock-and-roll lifer who's flawed but lovable, Shelli's a no-nonsense independent woman and dispenser of wisdom--but Wilson and Gugino are total pros, and they have a genuine chemistry. Which is more than can be said for the rest of the cast, despite the actors' best efforts.
By Kristi Turnquist FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 24, 2016
Roadies is so convinced it's clever that it feels like it's talking down to us. It feels forced.
By Scott D. Pierce FULL REVIEW
25
Jun 20, 2016
This is Crowe's The Newsroom, the moment when his trademark sincerity crosses over into preachy didacticism. [24 Jun 2016, p.54]
By Darren Franich FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Bad Robot
  • Dooley & Company Productions
  • Vinyl Films
  • Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination

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