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Molly Eichel

Molly Eichel's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Generation Cryo: Season 1 (2013) 70% B+ EDIT “Unlike many so-called "documentary" offerings from MTV, Generation Cryo examines real issues, and there's legitimate tension that transcends MTV's penchant for manipulating scenes for the highest drama quotient.” – AV Club Sep 3, 2020 Full Review Immortalized: Season 1 (2013) 17% C- EDIT “Taxidermy is an esoteric art so it's impossible to judge as a layman. Is that technique good? Who knows? It's no fun if you can't play along.” – AV Club Jun 11, 2020 Full Review The League: Season 7 (2015) 81% EDIT “The League uses its fan service as a vocabulary. It's easy to understand the plot without this knowledge, but it's funnier if you get it. In short, it's better to be in the league than out of it.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 7, 2019 Full Review Red Oaks: Season 2 (2016) 100% EDIT “Red Oaks doesn't break ground, but it's so sweet and well-made that it feels nice to settle into something so familiar.” – Philadelphia Inquirer May 15, 2019 Full Review The A Word: Season 1 (2016) 75% B+ EDIT “The A Word is a tapestry reflecting that autism diagnoses affect how families live and view the world but do not necessarily consume them... This structure allows The A Word to take a break from the serious and real in order to be funny.” – AV Club Apr 23, 2019 Full Review Hannibal: Season 2 (2014) 98% B+ EDIT “I'm happy that creator Bryan Fuller didn't kowtow to pressures to welcome a new audience.” – AV Club Jan 14, 2019 Full Review Flaked: Season 1 (2016) 35% EDIT “I don't want this guy to win. I don't want him to have a victory. He deserves what he gets. And I don't want to watch that.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 7, 2018 Full Review 1600 Penn: Season 1 (2012) 41% EDIT “Family comedies have become classics and thrived based on similarly simple ideas and switching such basic tenets, like blended families and differing socioeconomic backgrounds, but at least those shows were funny. 1600 Penn is not.” – AV Club Oct 24, 2018 Full Review The Golden Girls: Season 2 (1986) 100% EDIT “The Golden Girls had a penchant for taking on social issues not often discussed in primetime during its era. "Isn't It Romantic?," the second-season episode, featured an out and proud lesbian and nodded to the Sapphic subtext of the series itself.” – AV Club Sep 17, 2018 Full Review True Detective: Season 2 (2015) 47% EDIT “It's that the second season of True Detective feels ordinary while the first felt extraordinary... The ordinariness is a quality that weighs heavily on True Detective because its cop-show genre is all over TV.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 13, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 6 (2016) B EDIT “This Is Us is not a guilty pleasure. I don't believe in those on television because you either like something or you don't, and feeling guilt about watching television is a waste of brain cells.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 9 (2016) B+ EDIT “Kate still stuck with Kevin, and while that makes sense in the context of how Randall feels - forever separated from the other two - I wanted to see more of how they interact.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 10 (2016) B EDIT “Oh goddamn you, This Is Us.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 11 (2017) B+ EDIT “An episode like "The Right Thing To Do" was a lowkey entry that demonstrated why This Is Us works on its basest level: It's a sweet and funny show about a family.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 12 (2017) A- EDIT “"The Big Day" didn't rely on twists. By focusing on marriages in three different states, the episode found the emotional truth in these characters lives and the episode was all the better for it.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 14 (2017) B EDIT “Marriage isn't easy, and I appreciate that This Is Us reflects that beyond the sitcom simplicity.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 15 (2017) B+ EDIT “I so thoroughly enjoyed everything about this episode of This Is Us for so many different reasons, but above all, it was well-balanced.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 16 (2017) A- EDIT “It might not be able to reach some intangible emotional truth, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy its facsimile of such. But "Memphis" felt even more genuine that it ever has before, and it was a truly wonderful episode.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 17 (2017) B- EDIT “"Now What?" is a lot more descriptive of a title than perhaps it should be.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review This Is Us: Season 1, Episode 18 (2017) C EDIT “This Is Us pulled off a rare feat: It pissed people off by not killing off a character.” – AV Club Mar 9, 2018 Full Review Catastrophe: Season 3 (2017) 100% A EDIT “But the final episode of the third season was able to blend Catastrophe's tonal shifts perfectly. It was funny and sweet, but also dark and real.” – AV Club Dec 29, 2017 Full Review Roseanne: Season 6 (1993) 100% EDIT “Even though I couldn't directly relate to the predicament, I saw it reflected in my home life. And, as I get older, I see it in me.” – AV Club Nov 3, 2017 Full Review Chewing Gum: Season 1 (2015) 100% EDIT “The real treat of Chewing Gum is Cole herself, whose demeanor, humor, and fabulous, expressive face make the show what it is.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 21, 2017 Full Review Lee Daniel's Star: Season 1 (2016) 35% C+ EDIT “The second note I took while watching Star, the latest primetime soap from Empire creator Lee Daniels was, was literally: "Uh, this is actually terrible." Yes, the "Uh" was included.” – AV Club Dec 15, 2016 Full Review Better Things: Season 1 (2016) 95% A- EDIT “From the opening scene in which Sam chastises a woman for judging her parenting to choices, Better Things announces what it is about and how it will get there.” – AV Club Sep 9, 2016 Full Review
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