High Fidelity

Empathetic, textured, funny, surprising, and affectionate reimagining.

The series sets up myriad intriguing possibilities and wows with enough stellar soundtrack songs and pop culture-laden dialogue to keep us on the hook for more. By the final episodes, the previous High Fidelity seems less like a copied original and more like an inspired springboard to enable a more engaging character to improve her life and herself.

“High Fidelity”—both then and now—is about the timeless, vicarious narrative charms of any secret society/gang/club/superhero team. The insiders are outsiders and eccentrics who possess superpowers. In “High Fidelity,” the superpowers are in their ears. Their consequent oddities and obsessions only make them more endearing. Ms. Kravitz is particularly so, most of the time. ... If nothing else, the show drops its needle on a certain millennial hipster groove, without losing touch with its Gen X ancestor.

Rob is arguably the quintessential John Cusack role, but Kravitz winningly steps into those shoes. ... Even if this TV mixtape of High Fidelity misses some fundamental ideas behind the source material, it's still a delight. [Feb 2020, p.86]

High Fidelity has many charms. But it does also have a recurring dissonance, a bunch of vestigial generational and dude behaviors that make the record skip.

The creators of this "High Fidelity" TV series fail to expand on the material to the point where 10 episodes can be sustained.

Nearly every major decision, from the premise to the casting to the grueling callbacks to the film, is a fumble. The show isn't just unnecessary; it's a largely soulless cover that doesn't understand what made the original distinctive. Perhaps most dispiritingly, the marvelous wit and poignancy of the two episodes whose storylines appear to be wholly invented by the show's writers suggest that a great deal of talent was wasted on trying to give life to a seemingly DOA concept.

I've read the book and seen the movie, and love this take. Zoe Kravitz and the amazing cast bring these flawed humans who are getting through their days while trying to get to a better state of being to life in such a vivid way. You really feel the intensity and heartbreak and humor of these characters, who are shown to be kind and loving and broken and sometimes **** who just make mistakes and try to learn. Kinda like actual people, huh? The music choices add a whole different level of experience, brilliant selections without overpowering the performances or manipulating the viewer. Loved every moment!

Fairly disappointed with the show, given the cast. The silver lining is Kravitz, her screen presence is magnetic and has a whole lot of charisma, she makes the whole thing watchable. Maybe with better material this could’ve contended with the film. Unfortunately this is not the case, the show feels like a ripoff most of the time, there’s not a lot of originality going on. It’s more of a mediocre remake of the movie with same roles but different actors. Sad to see the show take this route.

A shot for shot, line for line remake of the movie except all the actors are different. There really was no point to making this. It's a flimsy copy of an originally good idea.

Nothing is sacred anymore is it..what a complete pile of cr*p. Just watch the excellent original film with the talented John Cusack and forget this made for cry baby millennials version.

I'm tired of remakes, I'm tried of under talented people getting lead roles.