Alec Baldwin's new TV talk show is being dismissed by critics as "too slight to really click" and "puzzling."
Critic Kelly Lawler says the first episode of "Sundays with Alec Baldwin" — which aired early Monday after ABC's Oscars show and featured interviews with comics Jerry Seinfeld and Kate McKinnon — is a "slapdash affair."
"[It's] low key almost to a fault. . . Baldwin, who had a short-lived talk show on MSNBC in 2013, is a decent interviewer, but the talk never gets too deep or reveals new insights about his subjects. . . The segments feel more like podcasts than a talk show. . . " Lawler writes.
"It's a bit uncomfortable to see him and Seinfeld debate the merits of the Me Too movement, and wonder why companies haven't ferreted out sexual abusers, or why alleged abusers — several of whom, like Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K., they know personally — do what they are accused of doing."
Lawler says the actor's chat with McKinnon is "more lively and dynamic," but he "focuses too much attention on his own relationship with the SNL star, cornering her into calling him her best scene partner and rehashing their time playing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on the sketch show. . .
"Baldwin tries his level best, but the show is too slight to really click. It just might not be his Sunday."
In another less-than-stellar review, The Daily Beast called Baldwin's show "tedious" and "a puzzling affair."
Critic Marlow Stern said while Baldwin "proves a competent enough interviewer, having honed his technique on his WNYC podcast 'Here's the Thing', the conversations remained surface-level …"
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