It's an intriguing departure for Netflix – it's like Daria meets Curb Your Enthusiasm meets Channel 4 Racing, without the Racing or the Channel 4. But beyond the novelty animal vibe, what remains is a joke-heavy critique of celebrity that it's hard to give a monkey's about.
Read Packer's entire (link-heavy) critique here.
This is fine, but the heavy handed critique of consumption is something we could do without.
Tim Hoesmann, a German lawyer, explained to DW that the IfZ's critical edition may slide past these laws as a work of valuable historical research, heavier on critique than on the original text.
Rigorous performance appraisals are rare and unexpected; informal critiques are frequent, heavy on criticism and light on laurels.
One particularly heavy (and ongoing) critique questioned his statistical approach, but so far he's kept it at bay.
Despite many poor beginnings and a heavy weight of substantive critique, the social accounting project(s) are advancing and are increasingly informed by the alternative/critical projects.
The Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli remarked upon the battle in his book, The Art of War, where he critiqued Tigranes' heavy reliance on his cavalry over his infantry.
The Phoenix New Times expressed similar sentiments, listing the "woefully unsung" Daddies as among the bands that defined the Northwest's "alternative to alternative", "[delivering] rock with more complexity than three-chord guitar riffs and social critique without heavy-handed cynicism".
