SummarySarah is a single mom raising a teenager, law student Gabe has an older roommate, Ava only wants a good future for her American-born son, Nick has just returned from a war, and Ron and Patricia are some of the residents at the Village, a Brooklyn apartment building.
Created By:Mike Daniels
The Village (2019)
Season 1 Premiere:
Mar 19, 2019
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47
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5.7
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Mar 20, 2019
75
There’s room for optimism, because there are plenty of stories to be told, and given time, this cast may grow into them. It’s a low-key sort of fantasy, the idea of one-time strangers becoming a found family in an urban jungle. But fantasy stories have a way of feeding the soul.
Mar 19, 2019
60
Fine performances go a long way to mitigating the corniness the show actively courts.
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48% Positive
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Oct 25, 2019
10
I loved The Village and looked forward to it every week. Shame on NBC for cancelling the show. With all the other crap on at night, it was refreshing to see a show like this. Please bring it back!!!!!!!!
Mar 14, 2019
54
“The Village” is certainly better and more ambitious than “Rise,” but it’s no “This Is Us.” Often, “This Is Us” comes by its emotional moments believably and naturally. For its lack of subtlety, “The Village” would be more aptly titled “All! The! Feels!”
Mar 19, 2019
40
If that actually does sound like a reason you watch TV [to cry uncontrollably for an hour every week], then The Village has been precision-designed in a laboratory for your pleasure. If, however, you're allergic to overt manipulation even in the hands of a reasonably talented cast and thoroughly admirable production values, best to give this one the widest of berths. It's a never-ending hamster wheel of tears.
Mar 18, 2019
40
The main problem is The Village feels like it's trying too hard -- as if the show was developed specifically to try replicating the warm fuzzies that its lead-in, "This is Us," regularly delivers, transparently wrapped in a "family is what you make of it" message.
Mar 18, 2019
37
The writers of Village make the mistake of confusing emotion with quality. It's not enough just to feel; you have to do something with those feelings, too.
Mar 18, 2019
30
The Village veers all over the map and does not boast actors capable of selling all of the lines they’re given. The Village’s idiosyncracies, then, come to seem studied and affected, and its moments of connection like rudimentary and naked bits of manipulation.
May 14, 2019
10
Great show with real emotions and real life stories. The show is honest and I love the char art and can’t wait to see how things unfold in the next season
May 14, 2019
10
This show is one of the best to come along in several decades... Contrary to D'Addario's inaccurate review, The Village has several actors who are stellar when delivering the lines given to them. Frankie Faison, Lorraine Toussaint, and Dominic Chianese are all seasoned actors who play their characters with nuance, passion and real believability. As a seasoned Drama TV viewer, I have been completely drawn in by their compelling and sensitive character portrayals week to week. Warren Christie, Michaela McManus, Daren Kagasoff and Grace Van Dien as the younger set of actors all are excellent in their roles and ignite the viewer's compassion and interest in wanting to see more of their life-touching life stories. There is something for everyone in The Village as the writing is current, topical and brilliant. The premise of the show is very unique as it explores the varied, complex and intertwining lives of those who live in one single apartment building. All of these lives appear to be quite ordinary until the viewer is given an up close and in-depth view of each character. This is when the character's lives then take on real meaning as the superficial assumptions are peeled away to reveal human beings who we, as the viewers, can all relate to from similar experiences in our own lives. The Village is a Thinking Person's show and takes the time to develop its characters with a fine, full-bodied approach much like a seasoned fine wine. It is a finely written dramatic series that has great potential to go the distance like the award-winning, "This Is Us" TV series. It is also a welcome respite from all the formulaic sitcoms with canned audience laughter that are a bane to most TV viewer's existence. I hope the studio execs realize the brilliance of The Village and green light it for several more seasons. Give us, as the viewers, stellar shows like this so that we are less inclined to watch the non-network channels or surf the net/play video games on our computers. The major networks ratings have been declining for years because TPTB appear to have lost their ability to recognize superior, quality shows like The Village. Do the right thing and renew it for the foreseeable future.
