Anger Management
FX | Release Date: June 28, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
16
Negative:
13
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80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a big cast where every piece fits, and at least upfront, the writing and jokes are good enough that Anger Management only uses sex gags where they work, not to cover up any lack of other ideas. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda StasiJun 18, 2012
Season 1 Review: The laughs can carry the show, so they seriously don't need the canned laughter and traditional TV sitcom sets. It keeps it all too safe. But so far? Not so bad. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: The accomplishment here is that tight writing and editing, a solid cast with good timing and Mr. Sheen's chops as the ne plus ultra of sitcom performers, make the whole thing feel, if not entirely fresh-then crisp. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management turns out to be a likable, nicely loaded sitcom. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: [Anger Management is] funny in that way where you might see the joke hanging there and even if it's a little bit obvious, you're happy enough when the actor hits it. Read full review
63
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneyJun 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: Based on two preview episodes, Anger Management is at least more interesting than "Two and a Half Men" (take that, Ashton Kutcher). That's certainly not saying much, though. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJun 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is really just a slightly more content-dangerous network sitcom. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryJun 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: This is, quite simply, a Frankencom, stitched together from pieces of other comedies. To their credit, Sheen, the talented cast and seasoned writers know how to make it all look slick and polished. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: They're [the initial episodes of Anger Management are] somewhat more amusing than expected. Read full review
58
NewsdayVerne GayJun 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: Not great comedy, but hopefully the beginning of long overdue recovery process for a talented, troubled actor. Read full review
50
Denver PostJoanne OstrowJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is a perfectly acceptable, standard-issue sitcom. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is kind of a mirror image of Sheen: scabrously, outrageously funny at times and monotonously one-note at others. Read full review
50
TimeJames PoniewozikJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's sometimes broadly funny and sometimes broadly bad. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is at heart a simple, old-fashioned sitcom, with raucous recorded laughter and predictable one-liners. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: If the series was actually a disaster, that might at least be captivating, but as is, Anger Management is just an average sitcom with a few good laugh lines here and there that could star any middle-age actor Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is a so-so sitcom peppered with equal parts funny lines and groaners. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: It is not a train wreck; it's just a train--chugging along from A to B, carrying the people, delivering the freight. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is Charlie Sheen doing what Charlie Sheen does-- on-screen. It's not artful, it's not elegant. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: This is all fairly predictable stuff and makes for a show that you'd watch because of the cast but would never put in the top tier of TV shows or talk about the next day at the office. Read full review
40
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Rick PorterJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Now that finished episodes are out there, we can tell you that it's not great. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Nothing in Anger Management is all bad, but not much of it is better than half-good. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Sheen's obvious, minimally funny new sitcom. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoJun 22, 2012
Season 1 Review: For now, it's a mess. [2 Jul 2012, p.37]
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonAug 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Sheen and Bruce Helford ("The Drew Carey Show") have conspired here to create a show completely free of ambition to be anything except a showcase for Charlie Sheen. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: What fans are about to discover is that Goodson is a less amusing character than the one Chuck Lorre created for Sheen at Men, and that Sheen's new show is a pale substitute for his old one at its height, and not much of an improvement on Men at its depth. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: The dialogue is so weak, the characters so thin, and Sheen's performance so uncommitted that Anger Management sleepwalks across the screen. Read full review
30
SlateTroy PattersonJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: They [the producers] have failed to uphold their usual high standards, having not mastered the calculus of delivering the boorishness for which Sheen loyalists thirst while simultaneously tinkering with themes of redemption. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: It wants you to believe that Sheen is playing the most sane, vulnerable man in the world, yet he still comes off like a creep. Read full review
20
PopMattersInkoo KangJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: The network has risked its own reputation for cutting-edge, genre-busting shows by churning out a sitcom whose main joke is how derivative, unfunny, and unconvincing it is. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: With its deafening laugh track and its banal barrage of gamy insult humor, it intrudes on FX's otherwise distinctive comedy lineup like an obnoxious drunk uncle who's not as funny as he thinks he is. Read full review
10
SalonWilla PaskinJun 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: Unlike most new series, and certainly unlike every other series on FX, it is totally uninterested in originality. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 17, 2013
Season 2 Review: The series is mostly a depressing slog, lacking even the calculated urgency that characterized the first season. Read full review
0
RedEyeCurt WagnerJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is a colossally wasted opportunity for both Sheen and FX. Read full review
0
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite the careful attention to image enhancement possibilities, the core ugliness and toxic narcissism of Anger Management are impossible to ignore. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management isn't going to bring that [good] actor out though, and it isn't even trying to, as it's just another cynical cash-in that lamely tries to milk laughs from casual, unquestioned dehumanization. Read full review
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