All eight reviews are positive, and the praise gathers around Sharon Horgan. Critics find the series sharply funny and unusually frank about menopause, sex in one’s fifties, divorce and the years spent caring for both a teenager and ageing parents. Several read it as a coming-of-age story for a woman of 50, and most credit Horgan’s writing and screen presence for keeping the indignities sympathetic rather than cruel. The Times places it as the third part of a loose run that began with Pulling and Catastrophe.
The spread is narrow, from the mid-70s to 90, and nobody dislikes it. Reservations are mild. IndieWire finds the premise familiar and says the specific insights and steady laughs are what carry it; Variety calls it light and breezy, which reads as a limit as much as a compliment. Radio Times, the lowest, still calls it agonisingly honest. The AV Club’s grade rests on the premiere alone, so its warmth comes with a caveat about how much has been seen.