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- HULU
- Sep 16, 2021
- HULU
- Sep 16, 2021
Summary The half-hour anthology series from B.J. Novak features character-driven stories.
Created By: B.J. Novak
- HULU
- Sep 16, 2021
- HULU
- Sep 16, 2021
Summary The half-hour anthology series from B.J. Novak features character-driven stories.
Created By: B.J. Novak
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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38% Positive
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19% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
52
38% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
19% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
While it’s clear that Novak has a take on the big topics, his script largely serves as a canvas for a cadre of quick-witted, deliciously entertaining characters—played by titans like Lucas Hedges, Jon Bernthal, Daniel Dae-Kim, Kaitlyn Dever, and Tracee Ellis Ross. ... The script twists around drama-comedy corners in an altogether promising showcase of dexterity.
One thing all five episodes have in common: They’re smart, thought-provoking and worth watching.
The ultimate worthiness of The Premise taking up your time is going to be based on your individual patience level for uneven storytelling. And that’s a shaky premise to build a series upon.
Novak is probably still best-known for having once been a writer, producer, and actor on The Office, which makes The Premise’s failures as comedy all the more frustrating. Oddly, the series is much, much better when it’s playing straight.
Novak is an accomplished writer and actor, best known for the US version of The Office, but The Premise seems to take novel ideas and flatten them out.
A few interesting performances from an ensemble that’s too talented for this show save it from complete disaster, but every single one of the five episodes of “The Premise” takes an admittedly interesting idea and almost stubbornly refuses to explore it, as if the very experiment of this series is one in shallow writing.
Most of the episodes feature lengthy, clumsy bits of dialogue or monologue that feel ripped from the daily concerns — and the ranty, discursive way of talking at, not to, one’s followers — of social media. ... Only one episode here seems to get at what “The Premise” was trying to do — create, through storytelling ratcheted past the point of plausibility, a situation that places a frame around certain intractable sensations of living in this moment.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.4
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Mixed
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1 Rating
29% Negative
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2 Ratings
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