Coastal Elites

2020

Comedy

Drama

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The top-shelf cast gives Coastal Elites a passionate pulse, but redundant speechifying and the stilted format result in a repetitive preaching to the choir.

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Cali C

Self serving rubish. Bet Midler an uninformed spoiled Sr citizen child. The only thing it accomplishes is it shows the true colors of actors you used to be willing to watch. Personally I will no longer watch anything with her in it for life.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/13/23

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Utter hypocritical nonsense. Very self absorbed characters pretending to give a damn. Boring!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Pretty disturbing, bette Midler is an evil demon.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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I thought it very well manifested the dumbfounded frustration that many of the audience felt at the time.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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christie m

Watching these monologues felt like watching theater, not TV, which I greatly appreciate since I haven't been to a play since COVID. The actors (all women and one gay man) represent underrepresented personas in media. This show gives insight into how the various characters' beliefs were molded based on experiences from their past and from the COVID period. I really like this show. The acting is raw and authentic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Horrible boring terrible kinda one man show but 5 of them. I only watched this because it has David from schitts creek but even he was boring. I'm sorry David but stick to comedy. And everybody else was worse.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Jay Roach

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Bette Midler

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Kaitlyn Dever

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Dan Levy

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Sarah Paulson

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Angie Han

Mashable

Coastal Elites is so busy being mad about Trump that it forgets to be about anything else at all.

Oct 2, 2020

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Melanie McFarland

Salon.com

It's about as direct in its play to the anti-Trump crowd as it can possibly be. Nevertheless, I can't help but wonder who actually has the stomach for Rudnick's Trump-enraged quarantine view into the left-leaning electorate psyche.

Sep 14, 2020

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Hannah Giorgis

The Atlantic

Coastal Elites' flaws begin with its uninspired screenplay and blandly written ensemble.

Sep 14, 2020

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Jason Flatt

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

Like all of 2020, Coastal Elites does too many things at once to ultimately do most of them well.

Rated: 6.5/10

Jan 17, 2023

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Zofia Wijaszka

AwardsWatch

Roach and Rudnick take the most popular type of people and, by epigrammatic, provocative script, make Coastal Elites an excellent pandemic watch. Once you think you can relax and laugh, they hit you with a twist that stimulates reflection.

Rated: B

Feb 11, 2022

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Chris Mello

In Review Online

Essentially amounts to an alternate cut of last month's Democratic National Convention, marked by the same laziness of form and messaging.

Jun 5, 2021

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Director: Jay Roach
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 12, 2020