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- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary Newly single assistant fashion stylist Mavis (Michelle Buteau) seeks to start over and find success with the help of her best friends Khalil (Tone Bell) and Marley (Tasha Smith) in this comedy series inspired by Buteau's book of the same name.
Created By: Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, Michelle Buteau
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Survival of the Thickest
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 13, 2023
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6.0
Summary Newly single assistant fashion stylist Mavis (Michelle Buteau) seeks to start over and find success with the help of her best friends Khalil (Tone Bell) and Marley (Tasha Smith) in this comedy series inspired by Buteau's book of the same name.
Created By: Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, Michelle Buteau
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
66
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Michelle Buteau is fantastic in Survival Of The Thickest, and we’re looking forward to seeing how her character Mavis inhabits her world on her own for the first time in years.
Each time the show sticks to Buteau’s own history and insights, we sit up and say, “You know, this ball of fire might be going somewhere!”
Survival of the Thickest packs a lot into this season’s eight-episode run. Sometimes, that feels appropriate—the period after a big breakup certainly can feel like everything is happening all at once. But the show occasionally struggles to keep its many storylines cohesive. .... Survival of the Thickest is at its most artful when drawing attention to just how much Mavis is trying to balance. The series doesn’t need to do everything to be great—it just needs to keep Buteau’s charm at its center.
As it is, the series’ pleasant tone goes down easily, and probably makes it ideal for binging over a glass or four of rosé. But Mavis, in the end, refuses to settle for the familiar and practical route when she could hold out for the challenging and exciting one. Her show shouldn’t settle for it either.
The lack of focus combines with the brevity of a season that runs just eight 25-minute episodes, an inconsistently written protagonist, and the scripts’ pervasive empowerment-feminism platitudes to yield a show that never finds a distinctive voice.
Despite Buteau’s incisive wit and confident performance as a version of herself, Survival of the Thickest falls back on the pillowy comforts of old sitcom tropes, with few efforts to update them for a new era.
At just eight episodes, “Survival of the Thickest” is too crowded with subplots and themes to facilitate the most effective sort of comic star-making: time spent with charismatic people in amusing, low-stakes situations.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.0
43% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.0
43% Positive
3 Ratings
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29% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Production Company:
- A24 Television
- A24
- Mosaic
Initial Release Date: Jul 13, 2023
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 7 Nominations
I Talk Telly Awards
• 1 Nomination
TV Scholar Awards
• 1 Nomination