Are You There, Chelsea?
NBC | Release Date: January 11, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
8
Negative:
14

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
67
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: You may laugh, but you'll hate yourself afterward. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Like the main character herself, the show is crude and rough around the edges, but you can see glimmers of potential. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show's just not as funny as Chelsea Handler is when she's playing Chelsea Handler. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: If the writers relax their death grip on that formula and Handler stops choking the proceedings, Are You There, Chelsea? might be worth another look. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyHenry GoldblattJan 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: Many of the plotlines are lifted (poorly) from Handler's best-sellers. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Whenever Chelsea Handler is on screen in the new NBC comedy Are You There, Chelsea?, in which she plays not the title character but her sister Sloan, we see the hint of the better sitcom it wants to become. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: A watered-down drink of a sitcom. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The problem isn't the performers....The problem is the jokes. Read full review
40
PopMattersMike WardJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: This isn't to say Are You There, Chelsea? is completely hopeless. There are bright spots. The brightest, predictably, is Handler. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: Prepon manages to give Chelsea's raunchy lines and irritating actions--including the brush-off of that opening DUI--more zing and charm than the material merits. Read full review
38
New York PostLinda StasiJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: In place of dialogue, we get one-liners. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoJan 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: [Laura Prepon] doesn't have any of the original's bone-tired, hard-earned scorn. [19 Jan 2012, p.42]
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonAug 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: The most puzzling thing about Are You There, Chelsea? is who exactly thought it was a good idea. Because it's not. Read full review
33
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: The fictionalized Chelsea occupies that irritating middle ground where she's not likable enough to be watchable when she's just existing, and yet neutered enough that her bad behavior isn't actually all that funny. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show is so wrapped up in moving the needle of apparently outrageous behavior that it never does anything but repeat itself. Read full review
30
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: Chelsea doesn't do anything to make the TV version of Chelsea interesting, likable or winning. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show is gleefully rude in keeping with Ms. Handler's personal style, but 8:30 p.m. seems way too early for explicit sex jokes. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryJan 5, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's an awfully thin construct, and either too FX in its tawdriness or, alternately, not HBO enough in its execution. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: Vulgarity and lack of taste aren't the issues here as much as a deadening single-mindedness. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Everything in Chelsea seems painfully forced. Read full review
20
SlateTroy PattersonJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show gets by as the vodka of television comedy. It aims to have no taste. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The smarmy and incessant innuendo is more deafening than the laugh track, and yet no matter how low it stoops, it still lacks the zing and bite of Handler's cable antics. Read full review
20
Washington PostHank StueverJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: If it sounds a bit thrown together for sitcom's sake, it is. Read full review
16
NewsdayVerne GayJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: A little too raw, especially in this hour. Read full review
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