HBO Rooster
Created by Bill Lawrence, Matt Tarses · 2026–present ·
Rooster (2026–present) earns a 75% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended overall. Created by Bill Lawrence, Matt Tarses; streaming on HBO Max.
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, IMDb, fan). See how we calculate scores.
Averaged from 5 sources
Is Rooster worth watching?
Yes — Rooster earns a 75% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Bill Lawrence, Matt Tarses and streaming on HBO Max.
Critics Consensus
Comfort-food campus comedy elevated by Steve Carell in gently melancholy mode — familiar in shape, generous in spirit, and sneakily affecting once it settles in.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
What is Rooster about?
Mid-flameout from a very public divorce, best-selling novelist Greg Russo accepts the least dignified lifeline on offer: a teaching post at the New England college where his daughter is a rising professor. Steve Carell plays the rooster of the title — preening, wounded, strutting through faculty politics — while Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses surround him with a warm ensemble, from Danielle Deadwyler's unimpressed colleague to John C. McGinley's gleefully hostile dean.
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