2 Broke Girls
CBS | Release Date: September 19, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
People WeeklyTom GliattoSep 9, 2011
Season 1 Review: The girls' chemistry should keep the show breakdown free. [19 Sep 2011, p.59]
83
NewsdayVerne GaySep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: The well-written pilot has a couple of brazenly vulgar sight gags, but nothing that will shock "Two and a Half Men" fans. Read full review
83
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: The best new sitcom of fall, CBS' 2 Broke Girls is rich in laughs and snappy performances. Read full review
83
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: After the forced opening minutes, it's the best multi-cam-com of the season. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Like many sitcoms, 2 Broke Girls stretches a little to set up the premise, but once it gets there we're sold, mainly because the two lead actresses are funny and endearing with great chemistry. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Broke is rich with laughs, warmth and credibility. The performances by the two lead actresses are instantly winning, both individually and as they play off each other. Read full review
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Max and Caroline's Odd Couple interaction is nothing you haven't seen before. But thanks to the show's two bright young stars, who deliver their shared dialogue with a nice, natural ease, their scenes together have enough charm and humor to make these struggling Girls look like winners. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 14, 2011
Season 1 Review: It promises to be a journey that should draw plenty of viewers. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 20, 2011
Season 1 Review: This show goes for Broke with its snappy dialogue, occasionally crossing the taste barrier with its grotesque ethnic caricatures (the girls' Asian boss in particular). But the girls have great chemistry. Read full review
70
SlateTroy PattersonSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Its greasy-spoon spunk is regularly palatable, good for a cheap chuckle. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Despite a diversionary opening salvo of post-feminist raunch and unfortunate racial stereotyping, 2 Broke Girls is a solid, old-fashioned sitcom about two mismatched girls taking on the big city and makin' their dreams come true. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show is a rampage of frequently inappropriate and always cuttingly funny jokes about sex, drugs, money and most of all the penthouse/flophouse culture clash between the two characters. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Depending on your tolerance for edgy humor, 2 Broke Girls ain't broke, but a greater effort by the show's writers to be funny without being overly crude/cruel would help fix it for a broader audience. Read full review
70
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: The odd-couple pairing is one of the oldest ones in the TV playbook, and the two mismatched waitresses in 2 Broke are good company, at least in the show's initial outing. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowrySep 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: If this promising half-hour finally comes up short on Nielsen's balance sheet, it won't be due to a deficit of energy or charm. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom GliattoNov 1, 2012
Season 2 Review: The endless sex jokes, most of them uttered expertly by deadpan Dennings to bubbly Behrs, are a pain. [12 Nov 2012, p.45]
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 20, 2011
Season 1 Review: It could be that, like a lot of sitcom pilots, Broke Girls is trying too hard. But when the jokes work, they're funny, so there's hope. Read full review
58
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: A good sitcom is much more likely to have started life with a bad pilot than a good drama, and there are little glimmers in each episode that suggest a much better show could come later. But those glimmers are much more obvious in 2 Broke Girls than in "Whitney." Read full review
50
The New YorkerEmily NussbaumDec 8, 2011
Season 1 Review: There's so much potential here it kills me--a deep female friendship, raw humor about class, and a show that puts young women's sexuality dead center, rather than using it as visual spice, as in some cable series about bad-boy antiheroes. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleySep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: The pilot begins promisingly with Max unfurling an Aaron Sorkin-like rant at a customer foolish enough to snap his fingers to get her attention. But after that there are too many one-liners about semen stains and orgasms that aren't clever, just pronounced very loudly to carry over the titters of a studio audience. Read full review
50
TimeJames PoniewozikSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: It was half appealing, with strong chemistry between Kat Dennings​ and Beth Behrs, and half awful, with some egregiously clunky one-liners and borderline (or over the border) offensive ethnic caricatures. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda StasiSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Its two stars, Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs, who make this show bearable. With different casting, this show would be as flat as the pancakes they serve up in the Brooklyn diner where they work. Read full review
50
PopMattersMichael LandweberSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: It seems a missed opportunity: the premise of the spoiled rich kid and the sassy poor kid forced to team up is an old story that often works. But both Caroline and Max come across as prep school students who are slumming. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklSep 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: 2 Broke Girls has its fair share of genuinely funny lines....But the program has plenty of eye-rollers, too. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: I liked this first episode better the first time around. Upon further review, its excesses and kitchen sink humor aren't wearing as well. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverSep 16, 2011
Season 1 Review: For sitcom's premise sake, Kat reluctantly offers Caroline a place to stay, and before you know it we're watching a lukewarm revamp of "The Odd Couple." Read full review
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