Alive From New York isn't quite the special that people wanted from Pete Davidson. But it's close. You hope that, when he records a second one, he'll be able to get closer still.

| Mar 10, 2020

A tight 49-minute show that lacks the tick-tock rhythm of a comedy special and feels more like a therapeutic happy hour.

| Mar 10, 2020

Alive from New York, is a deflating slog of a special that Davidson seems to know isn't much good, and to which the tentative audience isn't quite sure how to react.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Mar 10, 2020

[Davidson] may be stitching together all the pieces of his life and examining them for the odd, remarkable, tragic, difficult, unlikely events they are. But as an hour of comedy, the work is not finished.

| Mar 10, 2020

There were some very high highs and some very low lows...the 49-minute special is a pretty wild ride. Like, yes, I was chuckling almost the whole time, but there were low points, friends...

| Mar 6, 2020

Davidson runs thin on material, especially when you cut out extended, poorly paced anecdotes about fellow celebrities.

| Mar 2, 2020

The cycle begins anew. Alive From New York is designed to trigger a modest but manageable backlash. Whatever happens from here-good, bad, or ugly-you can bet Davidson will at least get some material out of it.

| Feb 29, 2020

The material is clearly not entirely honed and the forthright anger and self-deprecation is as fascinating as the genuinely humorous material.

| Feb 28, 2020

This performance is so raw, director Jason Orley leaves in not just the parts Davidson says he'd cut from the special, but also the aside the comic makes to him from onstage about a joke he wants left in, too.

| Feb 25, 2020

Alive From New York shows a comedian who's far too committed to the character of a guy from Staten Island for whom such a leap is far too much effort.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 25, 2020