Julia (2022)

Watchseries; So much to love here. It's pretty to look at, clever, andfunny. Delightful characters, like "Team Julia," and David Hyde Pierce is perfection as Paul Child's.

So much to love here. It's pretty to look at, clever, andfunny. Delightful characters, like "Team Julia," and David Hyde Pierce is perfection as Paul Child's.

Julia watchseries. Sarah Lancashire does a sufficient job in a role that has been well-worn by others and can best be described as caricature. One of my few complaints about the production, however, is that the "F" and "S" words are sprinkled throughout, as if people in the 60s routinely spoke that way. They didn't. It's not only inaccurate for the period, but signals a feeble attempt by the writers to bring the dialogue up to what they dimly feel are current standards. It's just sloppy and seems contrived and ridiculous. And don't even get me started about the forced Gay subplot.

I rarely write reviews but I was incensed by the pillock who slated this show. Sarah Lancashire is fantastic in this and I would expect her to receive industry award(s) for her performance.

It's hard to watch this show without comparing Julie and Julia's Meryl Streep. We tried to watch the first episode but found it dull and boring. So tired of the "wokeness " of television these days. The characters just don't blend well.

I watched the 1st 3 episodes in one day and liked it so much I watched then a second time that night. I am a Julia Child fan, and though I've never seen her television show, I have seen "Julie and Julia" several times, and read her autobiography "My Life in France," own both her cookbooks and the book "Always, Julia." I found this series accurate, charming, and eye-opening. Set in 1962, I learned about the early days of Public Television and Julia's contribution to it and to cooking shows and food television in general. It illustrates the disrespect the male-dominated industry displayed toward her and to women in general, and how she overcame their disinterest in her idea for the cooking show. I was never aware of any of that and admire her even more now. Forgive me if I've made it sound dry, because it was anything but that. I found it engaging and entertaining. The acting was terrific, with Sarah Lancashire as Julia, David Hyde Pierce as her husband Paul, Bebe Neuwirth as her best friend Avis, James Cromwell as her father, and appearances by Isabella Rossellini and Judith Light. It's full of humor and history. What more can one ask for?

Excellent acting all around with particular praise for Sarah Lancanshire. I thoroughly enjoyed the the first 3 episodes and would have binge watched them all if HBO would have released them! I remember watching her shows on the UHF channel in Chicago as a kid. With that said I think Ms Lancanshire's performance is spot on and heads and above Ms Streep's. Julia Child is a true legend of TV and cooking!