Catastrophe's final season is its most affecting and meditative, but not its best

Vulture

"The fourth and final season of Catastrophe may not be its best — I’d still give that honor to season one, a perfectly judged mix of slapstick, romance, pathos, and hard-nosed observational humor that kicked off with a five-minute lust-and-courtship sequence that felt like 'Previously On' highlights from a nonexistent season zero — but it’s the most affecting, thanks to the cumulative weight the series has built up," says Matt Zoller Seitz of the Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan Amazon comedy series. He adds: "We know it’s the end for us as viewers, if not for Rob and Sharon as a couple. And because we’ve been on this journey for 24 episodes and 12 hours, we know them about as well as we know anyone in our actual lives...The title of the series, which seemed quite specific in season one, has become multilayered and multivalent."

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