Episodes (TV Series) Episode One (2017) User Reviews

Episode 1

[bobcobb301 · 8/10 · 20 August 2017]

It is such a shame this is the last season of the show because the quirkiness and clever jabs at Hollywood are as strong and necessary today as they were six years ago when the show premiered.

The Box is the kind of ridiculous show I could see a network using. While guest star Sarah Armstrong is quite lovely, I thought the scenes with Matt were a little unnecessary and sexist. We don't need to see a beautiful woman in her undies anymore to have a good show on pay cable TV.

The writing room scenes were great too, but I can't imagine they're that much worse than going to a Madonna concert in 2017 would be.

Episode 5.1

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 31 March 2018]

Episodes returns for its final series. It carries on in its cynical amusing way

The first episode sees Matt hosting a game show, a strange reality show called The Box where contestants make other suffer such as Gilbert Gottfried going full throttle to a poor unfortunate soul for hours.

The show is a hit but Matt is not getting offers for acting work, now he is a game show celebrity. Matt and Lapidus are still rubbing each other the wrong way but Lapidus may have the upper hand as Matt rubs a pretty contestant up the wrong way.

Beverly and Sean are suffering in other ways. They have had creative control of their hit show wrested away from them, now having to put up with Sean's former writing partner Tim now put in charge. Tim makes everyone work long hours and cannot recognise a funny joke if it came up and chatted to him for 20 minutes.

In Hollywood you persevere through the muck. Beverly and Sean are doing just that.

Wow!

[alex_jones75 · 1/10 · 11 April 2018]

Frankly unwatchable - really disappointing after the first 4 seasons were so good. The jokes were weak, the writing was poor and it felt like a waste of a really good cast.

Episode One

[studioAT · 2/10 · 10 July 2022]

A real mix of nice things and also really lewd sexual stuff that cheapened this programme for me on so many occasions.

There's a real sense that because this was on HBO in the US they just threw every taboo element on screen because they could.

I'd rather watch 'Joey' the so called flop spin-off than this any day.