Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    Jun 18, 2015
    100
    A wonderfully relaxed, off-the-wall comedy series that has more spunk and imagination than almost any new network sitcom you're likely to surf on by this fall. [10 Sept 1997, p.5C]
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Steve Johnson
    Jun 18, 2015
    90
    It is shot in the seemingly off-handed manner of an independent film, and its concerns are with fending off boredom as the days drift by. It is invigoratingly easygoing. [10 Sept 1997, p.3]
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Miles Beller
    Jun 18, 2015
    90
    Austin packs a sweet, loose-limbed sensibility reminiscent of Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise" by way of early Woody Allen that makes this debuting series one of the more interesting and inventive efforts likely to air this season. [10 Sept 1997]
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jun 18, 2015
    88
    One of the season's coolest, funniest and most genuinely offbeat treats. It's MTV's best since the sardonic "Daria." [10 Sept 1997, p.3D]
  5. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mike McDaniel
    Jun 18, 2015
    88
    Combine these characters with some clever plotlines, mix in some unusual elements (or lack thereof) - on-location shooting using film, not tape; no laugh track; no audience - and now we're talking something gale-force true, something we haven't quite seen before. [10 Sept 1997, p.1]
  6. Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Jun 18, 2015
    20
    It's laudable that the show goes without a laugh track and studio audience. Going without appealing characters, however, is foolhardy.