Chimp Crazy
Season 1 Premiere:
Aug 18, 2024
Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
46% Positive
6 Reviews
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46% Mixed
6 Reviews
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8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Aug 19, 2024
80
Chimp Crazy is a docuseries that piles on the storytelling drama, but it also evokes strong emotions from us, which is what a good docuseries should do.
Aug 15, 2024
80
A startling portrait of need, delusion, and the cruelty it begets, all of it perpetrated in the name of compassion and adoration.
Aug 19, 2024
70
Chimp Crazy lacks the snack-chip urgency of Tiger King, but that’s by design. Haddix is a thorny and complicated character, although you often have to dig around the edges of the episodes for complexities they try to move right past. This is a series that isn’t meant to be wolfed down in one gulp and regretted the next morning. It’s made to be chewed on and lingered over, even if it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Aug 22, 2024
60
“Crazy” is both compassionate and manipulative, and the filmmakers themselves deceive some of their subjects and become major players in Haddix and Tonka’s story. .... There’s an endless “OMG” feeling to everything here, the kind of show that puts the outrage in outrageousness.
Aug 19, 2024
60
The series is disturbing, both in terms of animal welfare and human behavior — Goode’s as well as Haddix’s. I found it difficult to watch at times, yet it pulls you through to the end, as the plot progresses from strange to stranger. It is, of course, designed to do just that.
Oct 6, 2024
40
The end result felt deeply depressing, leaving the impression that Haddix and the rest of the chimpanzee fanciers featured need help, not exposure in a four-hour documentary series that shamelessly takes the moral high ground despite being built on shaky foundations.
Aug 19, 2024
25
It's hard to classify "Chimp" as "good" or "bad" when it is mostly just deeply unsettling and upsetting. Yes, it has a narrative flow and pace that will keep you coming back for weekly episodes. Yes, it is fascinating. But it's not worth it.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.9
68% Positive
19 Ratings
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21% Mixed
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11% Negative
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Aug 25, 2024
10
Though difficult to watch at times, the series delivers one jaw-dropping moment after another. It is tightly edited,and perfectly navigates the line between obscenity and hilarity in showing how awfully humans behave around our fellow great apes. Here's hoping the series does for chimpanzees what Tiger King did for big cats: manages to get the US to finally pass legislation (Captive Primate Safety Act) to protect us from one other.
Production Company:
- A Goode Films Production
- HBO Documentary Films
Initial Release Date:Aug 18, 2024
Number of seasons:1 Season
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hollywood Professional Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
