The reviews are unanimous. Eleven critics, none mixed, none negative, and the praise lands in the same two places: Natasha Lyonne’s performance as Nadia, and the way the series handles a time-loop premise that most expected to go stale within an episode. Critics agree the loop is a means rather than the point, and that the show uses it to get at grief and trauma without losing its jokes. Lyonne and Headland’s shared sensibility is credited more than once for keeping the tone caustic and warm at the same time.
The reservations are small and scattered. Consequence suggests the series rewards patience more than it rewards a casual viewer, and Paste allows that the construction is shaggy in places while still calling it nearly perfect. The Hollywood Reporter stops just short of calling the resolution of the premise a complete success. The spread runs from four stars to five with nobody below, so the disagreement is about degree rather than direction.