Welcome to Chippendales
Season 1 Premiere:
Nov 22, 2022
Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
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Mixed or Average
5.6
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
67
61% Positive
14 Reviews
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Nov 17, 2022
100
Chippendales not only tells a worthwhile story, it takes it a step further and scrapes at the depths of its characters’ psychologies, revealing a meditation on good and bad that is anything but black and white.
Nov 21, 2022
80
There is more than meets the eye to the Chippendales. The same is true of the Hulu show.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.6
57% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
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26% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Mar 29, 2023
8
A very well structured, funny series. Kumail plays well, but so do the other actors.
Jan 10, 2023
7
Kumail Nanjiani can indeed act and he plays the part of the stiff, out-of-touch business owner excellently. Juliette Lewis just needs to be around more in the acting world. She is so crafty and just melts into her scenes every time shes on screen. The miniseries as a whole is melancholy. Even though you're watching mostly depictions of good times and fun, the screenplay is anything but. It's sad and twisted and the plot only gets more sorrowful. Not to be watched before bed.
Nov 17, 2022
75
A large part of the series’ undeniable watchability comes from understanding how Chippendales came to be so powerful, despite being so close (and so often) to tearing itself apart. Even if some of the show’s bigger moments fall back on the unsurprising credo that corruption always wins (or, rather, that dignity always loses), there’s plenty to gawk at here.
Nov 17, 2022
70
Instead of fulfilling its potential for greatness, Chippendales settles for being merely good—and is sure to leave some viewers with the uncomfortable sense of having delighted in a dramatization of real people’s death and heartbreak. But its true-crime exploitation quotient doesn’t even approach that of Ryan Murphy’s recent smash Dahmer—Monster or the Renée-Zellweger-fat-suit burlesque of The Thing About Pam.
Jan 11, 2023
60
Kumail Nanjiani seems unsure whether to play Bannerjee as hero or villain, and his switch from endearing to raging control freak is abrupt. The script is entertaining, however.
Nov 22, 2022
55
Hulu has carved out an impressive niche of salacious fact-based limited series, including several with a true-crime hook. “Welcome to Chippendales” checks off those boxes, but in a less-appealing package that’s surprisingly lifeless, and even with its trashy selling points looks under-dressed for success.
Nov 21, 2022
40
Over eight 45ish minute installments, the miniseries never quite works its way to a distinctive tone or style or perspective, and never finds all that much to say about what it’s showing us beyond some vague clichés about greed, pride and the immigrant experience. ... There’s a difference between buying the right stuff, and knowing what to do with it. Welcome to Chippendales, sadly, doesn’t know what to do with it.
Nov 23, 2022
4
Kumail Nanjiani can't act, he always plays himself, a very weak lead ruins an otherwise interesting series
