Best Friends Forever
NBC | Release Date: April 4, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
8
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczApr 2, 2012
Season 1 Review: It has sharp writing and endearing characters. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: The series is highly relatable and, at times, pretty funny. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: BFF takes a less than inventive situation and turns it into something close to sitcom gold, thanks to the fact that creators Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham have taken the time to write believable characters saying legitimately funny things. Read full review
70
SalonWilla PaskinApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Refreshingly, they try to convey their likability by being...likable. Read full review
70
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show takes the time to give a few realistic dimensions to the characters' emotional lives, and each actor in the core trio has sharp comic timing. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: [A] low-key but charming NBC comedy. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Missteps are balanced by bits that ring oddly true. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: BFF uses the most obvious male-female cliches. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: The pilot is a minor thing but not an unpleasant one, once you get past the opening salvo of pubic-hair jokes. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: The single-camera comedy is not particularly memorable, but it could have been much worse. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Don't worry about forming a lasting relationship with Best Friends Forever. It has all the signs of a quick flame-out on the NBC schedule. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne GayApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: BFF is not bad--classify this as another Young Urban New York-based sitcom--but it's not great, either, or certainly not smart enough, or different enough, or flat-out funny enough to deserve anything other than the bleak future that now appears preordained. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: As constructed, though, the series has no teeth, and a sensibility that's slim even for cable. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayApr 2, 2012
Season 1 Review: Best Friends Forever is better than a blank screen, but beyond setting what I think might be a 2011-12 season record--0 to vagina joke in 15 seconds--it doesn't do much to break through the sitcom clutter. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: An atrocious sitcom that can only be understood as a threadbare network's attempt to empty its larder before the fall restocking. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Watching BFF leaves only a dull, but throbbing headache. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Watching Best Friends Forever is like going to the sitcom thrift shop and poking through the leftovers. It gets old quickly. Read full review
20
Denver PostJoanne OstrowApr 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: Insulting, derivative and neither credible nor fanciful. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushApr 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: BFF is about as fun as a multiple hernia operation. Read full review
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