Roar is what happens when a group of five-star chefs combine their talents and end up making a garbage plate
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"All the ingredients are there, and all the skill, but it somehow adds up to a muddled creation that’s less than the sum of its parts," says Jenna Scherer of the Apple TV+ anthology series featuring a slew of big names. "With this dream team and this pedigree, how could Roar go wrong?" she asks. "We have no earthly idea. But man, is it a mess—albeit an interesting mess. The series’ eight half-hour episodes vary widely in quality and tone, and only a precious few nail the assignment. The stories read like fables, and like Aesop’s, are mostly populated by archetypes and come with a too-neat moral at the end. Sometimes this works, but even the best installments of Roar tend to pull their punches right when you want them to go further down the rabbit hole."
