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Oh so refreshing to cast musicians as musicians! A heartfelt story, well written and ably acted, with the unique and so appreciated approach that the music central to the story is performed (and in many cases composed) by the actors, who are also excellent professional musicians. There is thus nothing to distract from the story. Rather, it all contributes and moves the story forward. A wonderful, enjoyable and at times moving experience!

As a fan of (most of) Damien Chazelle's previous work and the main actors involved, I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately, while it does have great moments, I was ultimately left disappointed.

Where this show does not disappoint is with the acting and music. All of the actors commit to the script and do an excellent job (for the most part). With all of his films, Chazelle has a way of drawing you further into the setting and characters' lives through flawlessly edited musical sequences that also provide as subtle exposition. The last episode especially is extremely well-crafted and entertaining. If I were to rate the whole show based on the final episode, I would give this an 8 out of 10.

Where this show does disappoint is with some major tonal inconsistencies, pacing issues, and two separate storylines that are meshed together in a very jarring and messy way. I wish that the show would commit fully to either the mafia storyline or just the club band players' lives. Having those two very different storylines alongisde one another didn't work for me. The first four episodes are definitely too long; in fact, all of the episodes (except for the last two) could've been trimmed down a little in post-production. Most of the time, the humor in this feels out of place, but this is just a minor issue. Another minor issue is that Joanna Kulig, who I love, does leave a bit to be desired in terms of her acting. This isn't really her fault, since English isn't her first language and about half of her dialogue is in English.

Overall, this is a flawed and tonally inconsistent show that does have great music, acting, and emotional moments. This definitely isn't going to be for everyone, but some will really enjoy this. I don't think I'll ever watch this again, but I don't regret seeing this.

Just a short review to say how much I enjoyed the intimacy created by the series - small vignettes of each character that you really care about - wonderfully realistic acting peaked by drama..

Wonderful series! The characters spoke French, English, Spanish, Polish, Arabic, Croatian and many more languages and still this diversity was not the reason they were unable to understand each other. Sometimes, miscommunication goes beyond language, race, religion, gender, age... These people were unable to express their feelings. They could not take a moment to open up and speak their minds, say what they really wanted to say. Their miscommunication was not because of a language barrier but because of the obstacles they created themselves despite the love and care they actually had for each other. Jazz was their escape, their universal language and when they played, the moments where they actually freed themselves.. Beautiful, heartbreaking series. Excellent performances, amazing soundtrack.. (Got the soundtrack on Itunes and it's been playing for days!) I only wish there were more shows like these out there.

Love jazz, love Paris, love the story about a jazz club in Paris, love Damien other work.. What could go wrong? (ep3) I care so little about the characters that i am trying to figure out why that is.. . Music is great.. But the way some of the characters behave and act.. Not sure in what works that is :) some reviewer said the last couple of episodes are good.. Let's try to make it to those

I liked The way they managed to show barely every member's story and their difficulties in each episode , And how the music remains their only refuge from life pressure. And the acting is just magnificent ,such talented casts and musicians

A great and original series! Filmed well and the production is great too, really captures the setting

Wonderful and original job. Damien Chazelle show us again his magical talent with this series. Cast was really perfect . The Eddy has warm tones and really good music scenes. I think this serie will favorite for jazz lovers

I felt like they forgot to put the shots through a software stabilizer the entire camera work of the series was so shaky that I couldnt continue after an hour

I've rarely seen such a unique play. It is real, not fake, it shows life in its real nature, simply, without wanting to create any certain effects on the viewer. Instead it shows life how it rolls without any simulation. Instead it trusts the viewer to create his own buzz himself, without any manipulation. The actors harmonize this concept and all of this creates such a warm and intimate atmosphere with the lovable characters that it is a real remedy for soul. I can't wait the next season to come out. When will this be please?

The Eddy is a remarkably done tv show that swoons you with its music but keeps you around for the amazing acting. The episodes are their own unique pieces within the broad scope of the story. I would highly recommend checking out the show when it drops on Netflix.

When you see Damien Chazelle is doing a jazz show wth Netflix, it's not gonna fail!

I know i know, its supposed to be authentic and artsy and real and what not.

But there is no point in all of the above if you just screw everything up with sloppy technical production.

There is no point in great acting, good tunes and a solid story, if half of the time the footage is out of focus when its not supposed to be or the light so dark and flat that you hardly can make out the action.

I was so looking forward to this show, but after the first episode i'm very dissatisfied.

I'm a professional photographer and i just get so distracted from the story when it looks like its shot carelessly with no regards to focus, lighting or composition. Don't get me wrong, i'm all for alternative filmmaking, but even with a minimum of production you can be mindful of focus pull and light conditions.

The sad part is, it does a disservice to the story and the community its supposed to uplift to the center of attention. Because ultimately a lot of people will stop watching because its distracting from what's important.

Its on the opposite scale of lets say a blockbuster where over production, stupid dialogs and CGI is distroying the story. In The Eddy the opposite happens, carelessness is distroying and distracting from the otherwise promising content.

Maybe its getting better, but after part 1 i give it a 5, because i love Jazz and i love most of the actors.

..superbly acted - realistic script and depth of characters. Best of all, there is some great music played by some great musicians. It makes you really want to be a part of the loving community which circles around a Jazz Club in Paris.

What a start, very promising first two episodes, great Chazelle work to set the tone and style of the series, from the third on, all that great work stablished went to complete trash, to start with the bad dialogues and awefully rare script beats, mostly on episode 4 (where I stopped watching this series), aweful script decisions. Truly sad that Netflix has to be that insecure not letting the entire series being shot with the same 16mm film camera Chazelle started with, that change to digital completely ruins the experience, also the music Chazelle started with (la la land like chords, musical freedom and connection) turned to a waste when they decided to use a different composer for the next episodes, extremely bad idea taking to mind that in the story is the same band. Wish they had let one musical mind for the entire series, and also let Chazelle direct more than 2 episodes, at least the last one. Had very high expectations for this, I'm very dissapointed.

...please let there be a season two. There's so much I loved about this series: the slow burn, the dedicated episodes to various bandmates, the MUSIC, the nuanced performances, the long camera shots, the DIVERSITY, and of course Andre' Holland. To give us only one season would be robbing those of us who are starving for this type of gritty grown-folk-television.

Gritty, intense, loaded with top notch music, the acting is superb. I sure hope there is a second series. It's mind blowing how anyoe wouldn't give this at least an 8 but some people don't get jazz...or how it moves you...and the theme, how everyone always comes back t the band, the music. Just great.

Very disappointed from this series, I was attracted by its jazz ambiance that seemed cool, the first episode was good, intrigued me to continue watching, then the other episodes were inconsistent, poor dialogue writing and the ending anticlimactic.

Great , believable performances by people who can actually play and perform ...who really are musicians, not just actors pretending to be. A refreshing honest look at a street level music scene.

I watched this whole show on Netflix, being grabbed mainly by the superb music and an inside look at the making and makers of music. However, my enjoyment of this was severely marred by the frequently non-existent sub-titles and the mushy delivery of the English dialogue. I'd say that I must have missed at least 80% of the conversation. The only character whose dialogue I usually could hear properly was that of the annoyingly petulant, foul-mouthed daughter Julie, the least sympathetic member of the cast. Considering so much was said in French, Russian, and other unknown-to-me languages, I cannot fathom why whoever supplied some sub-titles did not bother to provide them consistently. I couldn't even really make out most of the English spoken dialogue, let alone the non-English speech. .

As if to add to the confusion, it seemed to me that the script deliberately gives you as little as possible information about the characters, as if they had each spontaneously been generated and catapulted into the band like robots. As other reviewers here have mentioned, the mobster subplot is not convincingly woven into the story and distracts from the other more personal plotlines so that overall, there's no coherent focus. There's a whole lot of time spent watching the main character smoke and look tense. By the end of the series, I had no real feeling of any resolution nor of much concern for any of the characters in the story. The main takeaway for me was the sumptuous music.

This is a series I have been waiting for all my life. I live for live, mostly acoustic music.sound. I attend over 100 concerts a year and recorded a library of over 800 sets. I designed and built two very different mobile recording studios because I could not relate to smoothed over studio recordings; and the rough edges are definitely in this drama.

The sound of the band playing live on camera was instantly recognizable as REAL, none of the gear is props and every audio detail is congruent with the specific fictional setting. This drew me in in a way that no post-production studio can.

Further, the music was acted. When the plot called for the band to be hot, they where; when personal and business problems spilled over, they were not, and in a realistic way - because they are all real musicians, good enough to have a dual career with no schism. How they thought about the music, felt about the music, it was all there in the sound as well as faces and body language - while they were (mostly) hitting the notes. In that sense, the flaws in the movie are perfect - the stumbles, the focus, the non-steady cam, the flattened color of a dark club, the intonation, the off-rhythm, losing the protagonists in crowd scenes was all evocative of the live Jazz environment.

So, too, the off-stage action although over-dramatic fit the rhythms of musicians' life and the range of other denizens in this world. The daily tensions came from the clashes between introversion (Elliott, Jude, Cristina, Sim and surprisingly Maja) and extroversion of Julie, Farid, Amira, Sami, and the rest of the band. Then there was the clash of business - well I promised no spoilers.

Checking the other movie people's reviews I understand this is not everybodies' glass of wine or bottle of beer. No tidy Hollywood plot lines, but bumps and knocks. If you know and LOVE live music, you will love this outing as I do, right down to a musically satisfying ended.