Back to You
FOX | Release Date: September 19, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
11
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Grammer and Heaton spar like old hands, but the punches (and punchlines) are so consistently telegraphed, the series seldom rises above the mundane. Read full review
60
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: Absolutely nothing about it is original or seeks to transform the half-hour genre. Still, the fact that it is executed by sure-footed comedy veterans more than makes up for the sin of familiarity. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The pilot's plot leads them in a direction where "this just in" becomes an obvious sexual metaphor--some of it is funny, but there's just too much. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: So many parts of the pilot, though, seem dumbed down or sacrificing character for punch lines, you wonder why things weren't retooled in time for launch. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Three sitcom veterans can elevate comfortable mediocrity only so high. There's probably not one setup, premise or joke that you haven't seen before (or will see coming) in the entirety of your sitcom-watching life. Read full review
50
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Yes, they're wicked wacky, this group, but they also seem to have been torn from the pages of the Sitcom Writer's Handbook, their status as foils and fools having been measured out in carefully calculated amounts, the final goal appearing to be not so much nonstop hilarity as the reassuring guarantee of No Surprises. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicRandy Cordova
Season 1 Review: Whenever the action drifts away from Heaton or Grammer, the show starts to feel slack. Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: You have to admire Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton for holding up their end of the bargain, even if the material in their show, Back to You, is such a drop from "Frasier" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" Read full review
40
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: There's just too much shtick and not enough personality, especially when the stars' previous hits found their funny in relatable human behavior. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: This comedy is painfully broad, not to mention unimaginative and derivative of every newsroom sitcom from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" to "LateLine" to "NewsRadio" to "Less Than Perfect." Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: None of those jokes serve any purpose except to be jokes, and they suffer for the fact that real people don't talk, think or act this way. Read full review
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