The End: Season 1

"The End is provocative, and sometimes difficult to watch. It is occasionally funny. But Strauss hasn't yet found a way to make those things co-exist."

"Infuriating, cloying, and pretentious, as it puts characters into manipulative, melodramatic situations and then asks viewers to care."

"(The End) can't quite find its tone..."

"This well-written and well-acted show promises to be a satisfying watch to anyone ready for its bleakness."

"The story lines are dense - too dense, at times - with issues of death, but the comedic moments are a great relief..."

"The mother and daughter's relationship is so constructed as to make it clear that this is the cumulation of a lifetime of opposing views, and all the more painful for it."

"Provocative, and sometimes difficult to watch. It is occasionally funny. But Strauss hasn't yet found a way to make those things co-exist."

"It's sharp and unlike anything I've seen."

"It's a joy to see older people, particularly women, in roles with genuine depth, and the divisive topic of the right to die being interrogated in such a unique fashion, at once profound and playful."