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Recovery Road - Season 1
The series follows Maddie, a party girl and a highly functioning addict as she is ensconced in a sober living house and beginning to confront the addiction spiral that got her there.
14 November 1962, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
30 April 1991, USA
22 July 1967, Miami, Florida, USA
17 October 1972, Tucson, Arizona, USA
27 January 1981, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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2 September 1983, Bogota, Colombia
22 December 1991, Los Angeles County, California, USA
9 May 1978, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, USA
January 20, 2016
Teen-alcoholic redemption tales were 1970s afterschool special staples, but this wise, realistic drama is too smart to try to wrap up its main character's issues in a two-hour-with-commercials movie.
January 25, 2016
The show is earnest and well intentioned, as it shows us a young woman grappling with denial and working to get her life on track. It's not a cynical venture. But it does make happily-ever-after into a distinct possibility.
January 25, 2016
If Recovery Road continues to progress on the trajectory it lays out in its first three installments, it may leave both teens and those in recovery feeling that, for once, a TV drama hasn't patronized them.
January 25, 2016
The premise here is very after-school special. Fortunately... Recovery Road avoids the overwrought trappings by dealing with addiction and recovery in a nuanced and compelling way.
January 22, 2016
With a complex heroine and snappy dialogue, Recovery Road manages to push past its hokey demeanor to become a solid drama capable of depicting addiction in an innovative manner.
January 26, 2016
Recovery Road does a good job of capturing the complex web of both emotions and actions that are taken in the journey to sobriety suggested by the show title.
