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- 2022
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- 2022
- Hulu
Summary Nic (Daisy May Cooper) is in a loveless marriage and struggling with grief while taking care of her son (Lenny Rush) when she befriends a new mother (Selin Hizli) in this comedy-thriller from Copper and Hizli.
Created By: Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli
- 2022
- Hulu
- 2022
- Hulu
Am I Being Unreasonable?
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 23, 2022
74
9.1
Where to Watch
Summary Nic (Daisy May Cooper) is in a loveless marriage and struggling with grief while taking care of her son (Lenny Rush) when she befriends a new mother (Selin Hizli) in this comedy-thriller from Copper and Hizli.
Created By: Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
74
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
74
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
40% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Full of twists, turns and tonal gear-changes, Am I Being Unreasonable? is perhaps the most idiosyncratic home-grown series you’ll see all year. Try not to pigeonhole it or judge it simply as a comedy. Stick with it, strap in and relish the wild ride.
t is a darkly humorous thriller. Cooper co-created it with her costar, Selin Hizli, and it plays out cleverly across six half-hour episodes.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 60 User Ratings
9.1
92% Positive
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 60 User Ratings
9.1
92% Positive
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
3% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Although the show never settles on answer to the question posed in the title, it successfully adds itself to the ever-expanding category of shows about messy, complicated women without falling prey to the staleness of traditional sitcoms. And it does this all without forgetting to make you laugh.
Nic is troubled, and therefore trouble, but Cooper has not tried to make her sympathetic; indeed, she becomes less sympathetic with time. One doesn’t root for her so much as root for her to get over herself.
The series' tonal quirks and imbalances may be off-putting to some – the darkness of some subject matter right from the off is gripping but jarring – but it's in the scenes between mother and son that sitcom fans may find themselves most at home.
You can applaud the ambition while wishing they had reined themselves in just a little more and made sure the whole was properly fit for purpose – and the showcase Cooper and Hizli certainly deserve.
It’s a showcase for many of the same performance traits that make Cooper so watchable in Rain Dogs and it’s a fully engaging show to follow and attempt to figure out. At the same time, it’s a show that, in its attempts to be structurally ambitious, undermines its emotional core. It’s a story of two friends bound by complementary trauma that’s too often turned into a guessing game.
Full of twists, turns and tonal gear-changes, Am I Being Unreasonable? is perhaps the most idiosyncratic home-grown series you’ll see all year. Try not to pigeonhole it or judge it simply as a comedy. Stick with it, strap in and relish the wild ride.
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Production Company:
- Boffola Pictures
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Initial Release Date: Sep 23, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Awards
Royal Television Society, UK
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations