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Season 2 makes a concerted effort to push its characters into a distinct and new phase of their lives. It opens with Alex's troubling new obsession leading Valerie to take matters into her own hands. Laura investigates switching high schools.
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June 08, 2016
The acting is fantastic across the board and the writing consistently sharp and irreverent.June 12, 2016
The laughs (albeit small chuckles mostly) remain and Watkins and Dewey continue to be impress.June 08, 2016
A self-satisfied smirk stretched out into 30-minute installments, the Hulu series hides its lack of profundity and originality behind a faux-edginess.June 08, 2016
In this deeper connection with characters, Casual feels all the more real.June 07, 2016
Casual -- the let's-call-it-a-sitcom starring Michaela Watkins as a single-mom therapist -- proceeds from a place of diffidence, of setting up the mildest of jokes and seeing how softly the show can make them land.June 07, 2016
Anyone looking for easy laughs, look elsewhere. But you would be hard pressed to find a comedy with more substance than Casual.June 07, 2016
What especially makes this season of Casual work so well is its emphasis on friendship.June 07, 2016
Where Casual excels is in making the steps toward personal growth feel as real and meaningful as the setbacks, even though they unfold within the heightened world of a television dramedy.June 16, 2016
Privilege isolates and devastates people in both directions, and somewhere in its bones, Casual knows this.June 08, 2016
If you were there from the start, know that Casual isn't racing through story in this second season so much as it's pushing outward in a show of confidence that it's going to be around for a while.