Busy Philipps' Busy Tonight is still effectively an enigma after its first week

The Ringer

"Busy Tonight is a positivity-only zone and so ends up communicating little at all. It’s not antithetical to self-care to have standards," says Daniel D'Addario, adding: "We know she generally likes popular things and wants to give her viewer a smooth place to land before bed. But talk demands a crystal-clear point-of-view, and Busy Tonight has yet to find that, making its endless references to the language of self-help and its production excesses like the nightly lullaby feel like the antic search for a personality, not the expression of one. Some things about television shows we’ve seen before are worth keeping." ALSO: Nobody on Busy Tonight knows what to do with his or her body yet.