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The Premise (TV Series)

The Premise

2021

B.J. Novak (Creator), B.J. Novak ...

Randal Gonzalez, Meagan Noel, Jon Bernthal, Ayo Edebiri ...

6.2

93

TV Series. Drama TV Series (2021). 1 Season. 5 Episodes. Anthological series that uses the boldest issues of our times as a jumping-off point to tell singular, character-driven stories about the world we live in today.

Canceled after its first season.

	Media	Author	Review
		Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[It] can’t deliver on its promise (...) Most of the episodes feature lengthy, clumsy bits of dialogue or monologue that feel ripped from the daily concerns [of social media]"
		Steven Scaife Slant	"Though the series shows some insight into the hypocrisy of its subjects, it seems oblivious to its flattening of marginalized characters into little more than bystanders to some white person’s mess (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Noel Murray AV Club	"Novak has big ideas for this series, but most episodes are undone by phoniness and a lack of follow-through."
		Tara Bennett Paste Magazine	"[Novak] works hard to provoke, but rarely manages to elegantly present something truly unexpected. Where he does excel is assembling a cast of actors who elevate the material"
		Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"'The Premise' doesn’t seem to have one (...) Like so many anthologies, this series is plagued by inconsistencies in tone, quality, and theme (...) At times, it’s god-awful, and at others genuinely good (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"It’s a show that rarely captures how actual human beings act in the real world, which places it in that uncanny valley between exaggerated satire and social commentary, merely falling into the forgettable space in between"
		Joel Keller Decider	"Even though the first episode of 'The Premise' was uneven, there was enough there to make us want to watch the other episodes."
		Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"The half-hour anthology series suffers from an inability to take most of its own thought exercises all that seriously, resulting in logical inconsistencies, tonal unevenness and no small amount of smugness"

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