Hard to leg-warm up to.

The show isn't all that different from Bravo's recent Real Housewives of Orange County, although the production values are much higher--everything has an expensive, carefully lit feminine gloss that perfectly matches the homemakers. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]

Hot Properties has a loose, engaging silliness. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

It's always good to see dancing that's dancing and not a montage of repositioned limbs.

It's dumb, yes, but that miracle of reality TV named Cat Deeley hosts. [2 Jul 2012, p.38]

Done without any of the smart silliness that made Drew Barrymore's 2000 movie reboot so much fun, the show is just vixen nostalgia. [17 Oct 2011, p.42]

So far, it's of interest only for watching Lithgow--who likes to shout his lines with quivering urgency, as if he'd just seen a UFO--as he goes over the top to get a laugh. [16 Oct 2006, p.39]

Actually watching Big Brother five nights a week (total air time: 3½ hours) seems like the entertainment equivalent of enduring gavel-to-gavel convention coverage on C-SPAN.

[A] dull new sitcom. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]

Ghost Whisperer can be surprisingly moving. [24 Oct 2005, p.41]

The only good thing is Anita Barone. [19 Sep 2005, p.48]

Philip Marlowe meets Moonlighting—with a passing nod to The Odd Couple—In this delightfully inventive new detective show.

Everything has the familiar mechanical deadness of a sitcom assembled from old ideas. [12 Feb 2007, p.39]

The experience is like having the velvet rope lifted, then wishing you could use it to hogtie the charmed circle behind it. [22 Aug 2011, p.48]

CBS prounouces $#*! as "bleep," although the Twitter account that inspired the show uses an actual profanity. Either works as a short critique. [4 Oct 2010, p.38]

It's a good cast, and Arquette's peculiar charm is always welcome. But I'm tired of comedies about the desperate infantilism of panicked adults. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

Lohan attacks the part with a relentless, huffing-and-puffing determination that rivets attention.... While Bowler is a flawless Burton, Lohan's single-minded fierceness obliterates him. [3 Dec 2012, p.43]

It's pleasant, but not promising enough to care about beyond a one-episode stand. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]

The show makes Survivor look like a utopia. [17 Apr 2006, p.43]

This would just be another substandard sitcom, if not for its alarmingly sexist bent.

The premiere hour is abysmal, and the women's cluelessness is profound.[2 Jun 2014, p.49]

Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39]

Something like Entourage without the manic, kick-start fury of Ari Gold. [2 Apr 2007, p.37]

Like the world cares. [6 Jun 2011, p.46]

Apart from the fact that the gags aren't funny... it's off-putting to see something sacred being mucked around with. [30 Apr 2007, p.37]

It's a hair-sprayed cobweb. And not funny. [9 Jan 2012, p.40]

The pilot has come under fire for racist jokes, but at Cheap Laffs there's not enough of a creative sensibility for that to matter. [23 Sep 2013]

Season 3 will bring on two new wives, but the show will probably always belong to NeNe Leakes. [11 Oct 2010, p.38]