It’s not well-cast.... It’s not well-written.

A familiar mishmash of David Kelley formulaic elements.

A standard-issue WB teen soap opera about love and basketball that promises to get better because it can't really get much worse...It has no distinguishable stars and worse, for all its dramatic story lines, no real passion. [23 Sept 2003, p.E1]

All I know is the barrage of jittery camera angles, herky-jerky editing, scary noises, angry lighting and unexplained visitors in the background gets really boring. [6 Oct 2000, p.E1]

If I tell you that The League is a reprehensible show, I’m not really telling you that much. The new improvised-comedy series airing at 9:30 tonight on FX wears its reprehensibility with pride.

A truly baffling series about surfing, screwed-up families and miracles.

A flimsy little procedural that uses logical and technological leaps of faith to hide its central problem: lack of co-star chemistry.

These brothers are like most WB stars and starlets, pretty faces with negligible theatrical skills.

ABC has been promoting the heck out of The Trouble With Normal, but the shockingly unfunny ensemble and rotten scripts will undo all that publicity in minutes. On a positive note, this will almost certainly end the TV career of Jon Cryer. [6 Oct 2000, p.E1]

A stinking pile of unlikely plot twists, brain-dead dialogue and cardboard characters.

But is it any good? Glad you asked. No! [7 Oct 2000, p.E1]

Shockingly unfunny.

[A] surprisingly brain-dead series.

I hate it.