The Offer: Season 1

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Paramount+ | Season Premiere Date: April 28, 2022

Summary: The limited series dramatizes producer Albert S. Ruddy's (Miles Teller) experience while making Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather."

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. Brains and Balls
Air Date: June 16, 2022
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S1:E9. It's Who We Are
Air Date: June 9, 2022
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S1:E8. Crossing That Line
Air Date: June 2, 2022

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Collider Maggie Lovitt

Apr 21, 2022

Season 1 Review: The Offer is a nail-biting and exhilarating exploration into the making of one of the most iconic and influential films of the 20th century. While it leans heavily into the more fantastical accounts about the mafia and its influence on the film, it is still grounded in its approach and gives credit where credit is due. Read full review

CNET Richard Trenholm

Apr 21, 2022

Season 1 Review: While it obviously won't measure up to the majesty of its famous subject, this highly watchable glimpse into the magic of movies makes an offer that's hard to refuse. Read full review

Kevin Fox, Jr.

Apr 21, 2022

Season 1 Review: While the style of the opening credits signals “prestige TV,” The Offer feels too fun and melodramatic to be put into that category, yet it’s not self-consciously garish enough to be camp. For a show about a mob movie that features actual murders, it’s also surprisingly lacking in grit. Read full review

Peter Travers

Apr 29, 2022

Season 1 Review: Even when it flies off the rails fudging facts about the mob and movie-making, this flawed but fascinating series about the creation of ‘The Godfather’—an enduring screen classic even after 50 years—is still an offer no movie fan can refuse. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Apr 25, 2022

Season 1 Review: Adequately directed by Dexter Fletcher, (the Adam Arkin-directed episodes are better) the main ‘Offer’ problem—beyond its overall superficiality and lack of substance—is that it wears out its welcome. Read full review

John Serba

Apr 29, 2022

Season 1 Review: The opening salvo of The Offer fails to convince us that 10 hours of a “true” Hollywood making-of story is worth sitting through. Haven’t we seen enough of this back-patting, inside-joke stuff lately? Rewatch The Player instead. Oh, and The Godfather, too. Read full review

David Fear

May 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: Everyone collectively remembers the making of The Godfather as inspiring a high point in American cinema. Now we can all say it’s also inspired a forgettable, God-awful low point in television. Read full review

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shorewalker

May 7, 2022

Four episodes in, I'm not surprised that many critics have missed or underplayed the strengths of The Offer. Its first theme, creating and maintaining a great team, is something that movie critics don't tend to relate to. Its second theme, deciding who to support and when, is also unusual.Four episodes in, I'm not surprised that many critics have missed or underplayed the strengths of The Offer. Its first theme, creating and maintaining a great team, is something that movie critics don't tend to relate to. Its second theme, deciding who to support and when, is also unusual. Its third, the trials of project management in art and business, is completely alien to movie criticism.

Yet by saying intelligent things about all these topics, The Offer stands out – and, as a side benefit, is great entertainment for anyone interested in a rip-roaring tale about these things.

The Offer is committed to the idea that project management and team-building are skills that great filmmaking needs. Very few good films or TV series have been made about business; this is one. ("All the President's Men" and "Other People's Money", for instance, both have business themes, but neither is quite focused on business as its subject.)

The Offer shows a super-talented team doggedly pursuing an artistic objective. Paramount initially considered The Godfather a quickie project. But the team's members wanted to turn the slightly lurid bestselling book into a film masterpiece. They internalise each other's best obsessions – such as the desperate desire to cast a relatively unknown stage actor as Michael Corleone after studio boss Bob Evans repeatedly and emphatically rules him out. If you’ve been involved with high-performance teams, this dynamic rings true in a way that’s rarely depicted well on the screen.

As that studio boss, Matthew Goode oozes believable charisma. But the rest of the cast is never less than strong either. Newcomer Anthony Ippolito is playing Pacino - a horrendous challenge - and doing a quietly great job of it. Dan Fogler also does great work as director Francis Ford Coppola in a bromance with Mario Buzo, a lovely dynamic you don’t see enough on film. (And it's true!. Said the real-life Coppola of Puzo: "I just loved to be around him ... I loved him like a favourite uncle.")

There's shouting and violence, but the writers do a lot of their best work in quiet character moments. And they frequently reject the standard Hollywood solutions for their characters. Dull female tropes go out the window; the three key female roles are all just smart, interesting and effective people behaving in believable ways. (It's sad how notable this still is.)

Perhaps most unusually of all, the script genuinely seems to like most of the people it’s portraying, even the mobsters. Yes, there are obvious reasons – the story of Paramount heroes is being presented on Paramount+ –, but the end result is still great to watch. In marked contrast to most of this year’s TV, The Offer has not yet dragged for a moment. 10 episodes feels like it will be just right.

The Offer is not self-consciously artistic. But it is telling a great story about art and business, and telling it with both understanding and affection.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: April 28, 2022
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  S1:E10. Brains and Balls
  Air Date: June 16, 2022
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  S1:E9. It's Who We Are
  Air Date: June 9, 2022
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  S1:E8. Crossing That Line
  Air Date: June 2, 2022
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  S1:E7. Mr. Producer
  Air Date: May 26, 2022
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  S1:E6. A Stand Up Guy
  Air Date: May 19, 2022
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  S1:E5. Kiss The Ring
  Air Date: May 12, 2022
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  S1:E4. The Right Shade of Yellow
  Air Date: May 5, 2022
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  S1:E3. Fade In
  Air Date: April 28, 2022
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  S1:E2. Warning Shots
  Air Date: April 28, 2022
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  S1:E1. A Seat at the Table
  Air Date: April 28, 2022