Rooster; Dynasty: The Murdochs

“Like the recent Vladimir and last year’s The Four Seasons (also co-starring Carell), this is television for grownups. Younger viewers will roll their eyes at the lazier jokes about the generational divide (usually involving students’ hypersensitivities and mental health diagnoses) and it would indeed have been better if these could have been more focused. On the other hand, theirs is the world, so let us have these 10 half-hours, eh? Carell may not be the hero you need, but he is ours.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“Little surprise that this mix of one-liners, slapstick and warm emotional fuzziness comes courtesy of co-creator Bill Lawrence, whom McGinley has called “the Norman Lear of his generation”. The prolific Lawrence is the man behind Scrubs, Spin City and Ted Lasso; and as with the last, Rooster has a positive-minded hero at its heart, with a streak of sentimentality that’s generally offset by a tart line. The heartbroken Katie says of Archie, “that accent — it’s like having sex with Paddington Bear”. It’s the kind of show that doesn’t knock your socks off, but its amiable wit is more than welcome.”
James Jackson, The Times

“Just as Succession overflowed with sardonic wit, playing out like a Jacobean tragedy, so too does Dynasty, the series unfurling to its pyrrhic climax. “Rupert said his dream was to build a family business,” says journalist Gabriel Sherman. “What he built was a business that destroyed his family.””
Patrick Smith, The Independent