Bad Teacher

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 24, 2014
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 22
  3. Negative: 6 out of 22
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Critic Reviews

  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Patrick Gomez
    Apr 18, 2014
    88
    The team behind Bad Teacher has successfully reconfigured the raunchy comedy into a heart warming sitcom starring Ari Graynor that is still bad in all the right ways. [28 Apr 2014]
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  2. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Apr 23, 2014
    83
    It’s bright, sharp, without a laugh track and with a very well assembled ensemble cast headed by Ari Graynor in the Diaz role of a gold-digging, dumped divorcee looking to land another big fish.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Apr 24, 2014
    70
    All in all, it's a pleasant, sunny and well-played ephemeral farce; Gilbert, Grier, Hansen and Davis are all good to see again, and Graynor inhabits her character with verve and increasing grace.
  5. The Wrap
    Reviewed by: Diane Garrett
    Apr 24, 2014
    70
    Its kindly spirit and those performances [from Graynor, Hansen and Grier] help prevent Bad Teacher from falling into the increasingly raunchy trap of its network predecessor, “Two and a Half Men.”
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Karen Valby
    Apr 24, 2014
    67
    Meredith is a gold-digger, but when push comes to shove she chooses her students’ welfare over her ambition to become someone’s new wife. That is a pat resolution in a movie but not enough to sustain a series.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Apr 23, 2014
    67
    Despite the structural problems, there are considerable delights in each one of these episodes. All of them contain a handful of belly laughs, and the dialogue is sharp and pointed even when it’s not riotously funny.

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User Score
4.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 16 out of 32
  1. pyromomma
    Apr 25, 2014
    1
    Wretched acting, no plot, and not funny. Might be funny for the 9-year-old boy crowd but the juvenile humor is below even that loftyWretched acting, no plot, and not funny. Might be funny for the 9-year-old boy crowd but the juvenile humor is below even that lofty audience. Not worth the electrons needed to keep the screen lit.… Full Review »
  2. nautico
    Apr 25, 2014
    1
    This series should have been entitled "Bad Show," and the pilot portends no improvement. I didn't note a single redeeming feature. The premiseThis series should have been entitled "Bad Show," and the pilot portends no improvement. I didn't note a single redeeming feature. The premise and the script are abysmally juvenile, the cast unremarkable. I see no season 2 in its future.… Full Review »
  3. ana_melinte90
    Apr 25, 2014
    10
    Really awesome show!! Kept me laughing all the episode. In my opinion it is one of the best comedy series of the year. Can't wait to see more of it!!!
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