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Teenage Bounty Hunters
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 14, 2020
72
8.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
72
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Brisk and funny, warm and wonderfully oddball, Teenage Bounty Hunters is a binge everyone — except maybe Old Testament God — can get behind.
This show is just as fun and irreverent as its title, but there’s actually more going on beneath that surface of snark.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
8.0
85% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
8.0
85% Positive
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
There's more than a dash of Legally Blonde and a full handful of Veronica Mars here, mixed with a steady drip of quippy reminders that girls' bodies can stink, too. It probably shouldn't work. But it comes out fully baked, ready to be binged.
As both sisters start to explore the assumptions they’ve been handed about who’s worthy of respect and how they should act on their impulses, the piecemeal approach to nabbing people who’ve skipped out on bail doesn’t quite hold the same weight. Yet in those moments when all these disparate elements do click into place, there’s more than enough onscreen energy to want to see where Blair and Sterling’s stories head next.
Belying the simplicity of its title, Teenage Bounty Hunters gets extremely complicated as it delves into concepts like teenage purity, first-time queer experiences, and an intriguing mystery involving the girls’ mom, whose polished facade apparently hides a multitude of past sins. Fortunately, the main cast is backed by equally talented performers like Mackenzie Astin as the girls’ dad, underrated Fairly Legal alum Virginia Williams as their duplicitous mom, and Devon Hales as a venomous classmate.
Between Hardison, Phillips, Fellini, some witty chit-chat, and a premise oozing with potential, the bones of Teenage Bounty Hunters are strong and sturdy. But the finished product couldn't quite figure out where to put and how to connect them. Season 1 ends expecting a Season 2, where things could improve if Teenage Bounty Hunters lives up to its title more.
“Teenage Bounty Hunters” is pretty much as good and bad as you’d expect it to be.
Well, maybe a bit more bad. Which is unfortunate because the show’s young leads — Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini — have wonderful chemistry, batting teen nonsense, emotional eruptions and giddy observations back and forth with crisp timing.
Such a good show, it's hilarious. I loved this series so much, I need season two
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I didn't expect it would be such witty and funny. Incredible surprise of this summer.
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exceptionally entertaining. don't be put off by the premise or title. this show is 10x as well written and acted as any other teen show on netflix. if you liked Hulu's pen15, or Molly Shannon's Superstar, maybe Clueless, Psych, or Tuca and Bertie as well, you will like this. the show has great sardonic humor and while ostensibly about bounty hunting, the core of the show is about personal relationships. despite the omnipresent humor, there's an honesty and believable portrayal of family and growing up that's missing from all but a few shows that share similar marketing.
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I'm conflicted by this show. The relationships are great. The quippy dialog is so much fun. The pacing never leaves me bored. The show takes a quick turn and the hook of teenage bounty hunters becomes the B then C-story and then is dropped completely from the teenager's stories. After that, the show's A-story forces the characters into cliche identity political situations. The last few episodeds the show jumps the shark(creates situation that are unbeilevable even for the world the show has established). Feels like the show didn't know where it wanted to go.
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Production Company:
- Tilted Productions
Initial Release Date: Aug 14, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
