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Up Here (TV series)

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Up Here is an American musical romantic comedy television series developed by Steven Levenson, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel for Hulu that premiered on March 24, 2023. In July 2023, the series was canceled after one season.

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Production

Development

The series was based on the stage musical of the same name by Lopez and Anderson-Lopez, which played at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2015.[1] The series was first announced in January 2022 when Hulu gave the project a series order. Steven Levenson, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel were set as writers and executive producers.[2] On July 28, 2023, Hulu canceled the series after one season.[3]

Casting

Mae Whitman was cast in March 2022, and Carlos Valdes was cast in June.[4][5] Later that month, Katie Finneran, John Hodgman, Andréa Burns, Sophia Hammons, and Emilia Suárez were cast as series regulars, along with George Hampe, Julia McDermott, Scott Porter, Ayumi Patterson, and Brian Stokes Mitchell in recurring roles.[6]

Release

All eight episodes were released on Hulu, and internationally on Disney+ (via Star) and Star+ in the Latin America,[7] on March 24, 2023.[8]

Soundtrack

All tracks are written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez.

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Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 53% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10, based on 17 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Mae Whitman and Carlos Valdes are a likable enough pair, but Up Here is let down by a thin story that knocks its melody off-key."[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 53 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[10]

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