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

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

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