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- HBO
- Oct 25, 2018
- HBO
- Oct 25, 2018
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
77
83% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
17% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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You'll laugh out loud at the characters' misery and awkwardness, and then feel awful for doing so. Like Davis herself, the show is like nothing else you've seen. [9 Nov 2018, p.50]
Potentially cataclysmic. I’m not certain U.S. viewers are--or will ever be--ready. ... The funniest moments in Sally4Ever, though, tend to be not so outrageous. They’re the way Emma pronounces “Pilates” (pill-ah-tez), and the face Sally makes watching David’s a cappella group sing George Michael’s “Faith,” and the robotic selfie stick that appears in one scene out of nowhere. ... These interludes aren’t scandalizing so much as hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, just like Davis intended.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.3
55% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.3
55% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
25% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
20% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
If you like comedy that makes you uncomfortable and wonder 'should I laugh here?' and laugh, then Julia Davis is for you. Some elements will make you cringe and look away from the screen, but you are compelled to keep watching to see if that was just a 'oneoff'.
All her work is based on the mayhem a sociopath can reap on the weak and those in need of some sort of recognition.
Brilliant observation of human nature.
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SEASON 1
Julia Davis on HBO? Yes!
I have a feeling this show will be misunderstood by a US audience. For the rest of us, hooray, more classic Julia Davis on the small screen. This show is right up there with her past gross-out style but after watching the first three episodes it's promising to be her best yet.
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A wonderfully sinister look at what happens when a mostly unhappy person in a mostly unhappy life opens the door to a manic pixie dream girl who also happens to be toxically awful and hard to shake upon further inspection. ... Davis is always doing something audacious with her comedy and it works because she doesn't ever blink or water it down, or laden it with sympathy. She's the master of how to do unlikable characters.
The true stars here, though, are the failings of human nature. Sally4Ever is the kind of comedy so dark it pushes straight through bleakness to a morality-play clarity: It’s an unflattering, fluorescent light on the manifestations of human self-interest and weakness. This works better than HBO’s translation of “Camping.”
Sally4Ever isn’t necessarily bursting apart established conventions, but some moments challenge a person’s appetite. Although Davis draws our focus with her character’s outrageous selfishness, Shepherd is tasked with carrying Sally4Ever simply by reacting to all the attention in a way any sensible person would. ... Her subdued performance is a welcome counterbalance to Emma’s audacious egomania and David’s simpering foolery.
The laughs Sally4Ever provides--and there are big ones--come precisely because Emma, David and the rest are so terrible in such exaggerated fashion. ... But I was already wearying of it by the third episode, because Emma is that unapologetically appalling. This problem is one of sensibility rather than execution, and Sally4Ever certainly commits to its goals. The next two Sunday nights on HBO will do a nice job of illustrating some of the core differences between comedy here versus over there.
Three episodes into this seven-part season, it remains unclear what all this horrible awkwardness and explosions of bowels add up to--how much art can be found in the squicky craft of an evil clown.
The Pilot has me ROLLING. The two female leads are revelations, and the jilted male fiancee is so gnarly, so gross, and he nails the performance perfectly. This is a must-watch series so far, in my opinion.
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SEASON 1
I'm a fan of everything Julia Davis has created upto now. I thought that her most recent series, Camping, was probably her best. For anyone who hasn't seen it, the HBO remake of Camping is poor in comparison. I'm two episodes into SALLY4EVER and I have to say that I'm decidedly underwhelmed. Unlike Nighty Night, Hunderby, or Camping, the atmosphere created in the show is not nearly surreal enough to sustain the inexplicable behaviour of such straight-laced characters. I take no pleasure in saying it, but this is Julia Davis-by-numbers; it resembles her best work, but there's none of their originality, and none of the care taken to create a world in which her characters make any sort of sense.
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OMG! That is all i have to say, cause if i say more i will indite myself ... LOL. Watch it and if you like it .. brain + interests is BLPD :)
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