With this slickly produced 70-minute standup special, Netflix continues its glittering and sometimes subversive lineup of smart, kooky comedy.

| Jul 24, 2019

In Relatable, Ellen DeGeneres struggles to regain the edge that she has lost in that intervening time...In defending Hart without any sort of thoughtful inquiry, DeGeneres abdicated her responsibility to her audience.

| Jan 8, 2019

I just wish she gave us more of her own visceral humanness and trusted us to receive her with a little more darkness than her brand typically allows for.

| Dec 26, 2018

Relatable is the work of an entertainer who has given herself permission: to admit just how awful it felt to be rejected by people she loves because of who she is; to complain about being asked to dance wherever she goes; to not be relatable.

| Dec 20, 2018

It also makes her more real to everyone - to her fans and anyone else who has an immutable notion of who she is without taking into account the expectation of who we expect her to be.

| Dec 20, 2018

This special is damn delightful.

| Original Score: 7.8/10 | Dec 20, 2018

All relatable stuff. If not out-and-out gut-busting or thought-provoking. Does comedy necessarily have to be either of those, though? Can't funny just be funny?

| Dec 20, 2018

However un-relatable DeGeneres might claim to be, her special feels like a joyous invitation; perhaps the next one won't take 15 years to arrive.

| Dec 20, 2018

It's goofy, and if there's an edge underneath DeGeneres's frustration with the complaint that she may no longer be relatable, it's buried deep.

| Dec 20, 2018

Most of the time "Relatable" has the feeling of catching up with DeGeneres. She's been through some lows, and is now high on the perch of success, but we have a good time listening to her share all about it.

| Dec 19, 2018

As refreshing as it is to hear DeGeneres open up in a more nakedly honest way than we are used to seeing, she's at her purest comedically in the special when she returns to the type of observational humor that made her famous in the first place.

| Dec 18, 2018

Irony wins and Ellen rules. Fury has had nothing to do with DeGeneres' triumph or enduring appeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 18, 2018

After all this time away from the stage, Relatable [is] a promising new beginning for an old pro.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 18, 2018