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Mammals (TV Series)

Mammals

2022

Stephanie Laing

James Corden, Sally Hawkins, Colin Morgan, Henry Lloyd-Hughes ...

6.1

341

TV Series. Comedy. Drama 6 episodes. Jamie (James Corden) is a chef whose world collapses when he discovers unexpected secrets about his pregnant wife, Amandine (Melia Kreiling). Jamie begins to look for answers with the help of his brother Jeff (Colin Morgan), but during this search the cracks in Jeff's marriage with Lue (Sally Hawkins), Jamie's sister, also intensify.

	Author	Review
United States	Lex Briscuso The Playlist	"Despite its effective writing and performances, the show can’t get out of its own way and rise above, bringing nothing new to the conversation, thus becoming ultimately forgettable"	NEG
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Corden may be the perfect actor to keep viewers uncomfortable and on edge throughout, but this might be a moment at which many viewers just aren’t interested in going on an eyebrow-raising journey with him"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"There's probably not enough strictly on [its] merits to lead ['Mammals'] through the jungle and out of the woods"	NEG
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"For all the ways 'Mammals' bites off more than it can chew, the overall meal is worth sitting down for to observe who the fellow diners at the table of life truly are"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"[It] aims for provocation, but will likely bring many viewers closer to befuddlement"	NEG
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"Though 'Mammals' serves as a reminder of Corden's considerable acting talent, the show's dreary ideas about marriage and monogamy are not particularly original"	NEU
Ireland	Chris Wasser Irish Independent	"A poorly managed cacophony of ideas"	NEG
United States	Melanie McFarland Salon	"For me the show's beating heart is something that goes unnamed -and for artistic reasons that's for the better- across all six languidly beautiful and methodically brutal episodes"	POS
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"'Mammals' is concerned with fidelity –how we define it, why we place so much importance on it and what happens when a party fails in it. The problem is that it barely raises these questions, let alone interrogates them (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"Butterworth has a way of giving sentimentality a dry, cynical edge that doesn’t dispose you to care about his characters as much as you need to. But Corden and Kreiling help to compensate"	NEU
United States	Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"People are complicated, but, meaning no disrespect to the actors, these people don’t seem complicated so much as incompletely drawn"	NEG
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"The episodes are half an hour at most, and each is a treat (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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