Gypsy (2017) : Season 1

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  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 30, 2017
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  • Summary: New York City therapist Jean Holloway (Naomi Watts) becomes involved with her patients and their lives in this psychological thriller series written and created by Lisa Rubin.
  • Genre(s): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 21
  3. Negative: 5 out of 21
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jeff Jensen
    Jun 23, 2017
    83
    Crudup makes the most of his unconventional cuckold, letting you see how the unexamined privilege of this easy, breezy good guy enables Jean. The surrounding characters lack similar depth, and I wish there were more invention in the filmmaking. Still, Watts has enough shine to make Gypsy a wandering, adventurous character-study worth following.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Robert Rorke
    Jun 28, 2017
    63
    The glacial pacing prevents any intrigue from building. Despite these drawbacks, the lovely Naomi Watts is able to bring subtle shading (and a great American accent) to the role as Jean’s professionalism is compromised by unconscious motives. It’s too bad the writers haven’t given her better material.
  3. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Jun 30, 2017
    60
    The first episode of Gypsy is a tough slog, what with a dallying pace and Jean making silly voice-over pronouncements . ... Allow yourself to be taken in by Watts’s wily strategy, and Gypsy may, at its best, be viewed as an interesting character study.
  4. Colorado Springs Gazette
    Reviewed by: Terry Terrones
    Jun 29, 2017
    42
    While Naomi Watts is a fantastic actress and gives a great effort, her character is so unpleasant and performs a series of irrational acts that she’s challenging to watch. Instead of being risqué, without clarity or a proper protagonist Gypsy is a series that just can’t seem to find its voice.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jun 30, 2017
    40
    There are some nice performances here--Watts is watchable from moment to moment, whatever she’s being asked to say, and for some viewers 10 episodes worth of the actress will be reason enough to invest the time. ... [But] almost nothing about Gypsy feels authentic.
  6. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Jun 26, 2017
    40
    Gypsy plods forward, adding one more unprofessional and inappropriate act onto another until you’re pretty sure that at some point, Jean’s Jenga tower of duplicity is going to collapse. The problem is that when it does, you’ll have already gotten too bored to care.
  7. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jun 27, 2017
    20
    A depressingly bad show for the talent it wastes on horrendous dialogue, unbelievable characters, and the kind of soapy plotting you’re more likely to see on a Lifetime TV movie than prestige drama.

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. natalie95
    Jul 7, 2017
    10
    Haven't enjoyed a series this much in a while! Very glad I didn't read too much into the critics' negative views (which I'm very surprisedHaven't enjoyed a series this much in a while! Very glad I didn't read too much into the critics' negative views (which I'm very surprised at!) and made my own judgement on the show :)
    Compelling drama, great chemistry between characters, intense scenes and many mysterious and interesting questions left unanswered and ready to explore further in s2; what more could you want from a show. Also a great thing to see a show with strong and complex female characters at the forefront.

    I'm very much looking forward to season 2!    … Expand
  2. Keny
    Jul 5, 2017
    10
    It gets really good by episode six, and they finally can make the show a thriller. Can't say enough times how fantastic Naomi Watts is. IIt gets really good by episode six, and they finally can make the show a thriller. Can't say enough times how fantastic Naomi Watts is. I loved Billy Crudup as Michael. Sophie Cookson and Lucy Boynton did a really good job too! Hope Netflix hire a few writers to make season 2 something even crazier.… Expand
  4. JorgeLestre
    Jul 2, 2017
    7
    'Gypsy' is most definitely messy and sloppy, but I somehow felt engaged with Naomi Watts and Sophie Cookson's connection and chemistry.'Gypsy' is most definitely messy and sloppy, but I somehow felt engaged with Naomi Watts and Sophie Cookson's connection and chemistry. Although the series has a tremendous amount of storytelling flaws, it can be actually pretty interesting while constructing its own mystery.… Expand
  5. JennetP
    Jul 2, 2017
    7
    First, the good news: it’s refreshing to see a female protagonist having a midlife crisis and doing stupid things to prove to herself thatFirst, the good news: it’s refreshing to see a female protagonist having a midlife crisis and doing stupid things to prove to herself that she’s still as cool and fun and reckless as she used to be. Usually, that’s a guy story, and the women just concentrate on proving they’re still attractive. Moreover, Naomi Watts gives the character depth and subtlety, so her midlife crisis is more than just a gender-bending gimmick; it’s a story that matters.

    The bad news, for me, is the writing. I’m among the many who think that therapists tend to be more screwed up than their patients, but this therapist violates a whole series of professional boundaries for little reason beyond a temperamental aversion to boundaries (though not to lecturing her patients about them—ooooh, the irony!) In other words, the lives she infiltrates don’t seem fascinating enough, nor does she seem damaged enough, for me to buy that she would risk the complete destruction of her family and her career in the ways she does.

    In addition to being motiveless, the script is didactic. The whole series is about identity, so relentlessly about identity that unless you enjoy lectures about the various selves we inhabit over the course of a lifetime and the role of of social expectations in shaping those selves, you will likely not appreciate the series. At times the drama becomes downright allegorical. Billy Crudup plays conventional identity; Sophie Cookson plays unconventional identity; little Maren Heary plays emerging identity; and Naomi Watts plays all of the above. And, lest we miss the point, they all talk incessantly about self-formation, alternate selves, acceptable and unacceptable selves, and all of the components of identity until this viewer threw a shoe at her TV screen and shouted, “Shut up! I got it five episodes ago!”

    But the shoe was a fuzzy slipper, not a steel-toed boot, because, for all its thematic insistence, the series was fresh and interesting enough to watch all the way through in a single holiday weekend. With the same actors and a better script, it could have been great, but it was nonetheless pretty good, comparable in quality (and tone) to “Big Little Lies” and likely to appeal to the same viewers.    … Expand

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