Mammals: Season 1

"This is, for six episodes’ worth of television, a bit thin."

"For all its shortcomings, Mammals is easy to binge..."

"People are complicated, but, meaning no disrespect to the actors, these people don’t seem complicated so much as incompletely drawn."

"James Corden is a loutish manbaby in this lame, risible drama."

"Clever and surprising..."

"The show's dreary ideas about marriage and monogamy are not particularly original."

"It’s deceptively simple — my notes read “So, um, what’s the point of all this?” several times — until it’s deceptively complicated."

"Butterworth doesn’t seem to have decided whether he’s writing an absurdist comedy or a sober relationship drama..."

"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."

"You’ll be hooked from the first scenes."

"More successful are Mammals’ more straightforwardly surreal moments..."

"Like The Affair, albeit a tad less serious (but just a tad)."