Bad Teacher
CBS | Release Date: April 24, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, it takes Bad Teacher less than 30 minutes to feel as exhausted and repetitive as Men does after 11 years. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Bad Teacher has its moments, with dialogue that's sometimes sharper than the situations. It isn't nearly funny enough, though, to make me want to spend another period--much less the rest of the school year--watching Graynor vamp her way through American history. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Graynor is so obviously vulgar a man-eater that there's no charm to her bawdy smarm. The stereotypes surrounding her (David Alan Grier as the gullible soft-touch principal, Sara Gilbert as a desperately nerdy teacher and Kristin Davis as her prim nemesis) are little help. Read full review
25
NewsdayVerne GayApr 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: As expected, the transition from big screen to small doesn't exactly work. What this Bad Teacher really needed to do was outsmart the source material--make this version more clever, or sharper, or funnier, or (above all) make it for adults. Read full review
20
Washington PostHank StueverApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Bad Teacher is a comedy--barely--that reinforces an unfortunate message that teaching is a career wasteland. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineMatt BrennanApr 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Leached of the original's tart sense of humor, the series quickly settles into lowest-common-denominator boilerplate, an unintended critique of the declining sitcom formula. Read full review
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