Big Day
ABC | Release Date: November 28, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
12

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Husband-and-wife team Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa pack the half-hour with oddball characters, zany circumstances and loads of physical comedy, but it's all grounded in enough reality to be utterly believable and irrepressibly funny. Read full review
80
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: “Big Day” is marvelously cast, and the actors, especially Wendie Malick, manage, like the cast of “24,” to convey a sense of urgency that almost belongs on the stage. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Normally, this should be as much fun as pulling out your own fingernails, but the cast for the most part makes it tolerable and fun. Read full review
60
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: The larger problem may be whether there's enough material to cover an entire season. Read full review
60
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: A lot of this is pretty funny, but for 24 episodes? Read full review
60
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: A harmless and mostly fun little sitcom. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: "Big Day" doesn't feel like a big hit, but it is intermittently amusing. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: "Big Day" just doesn't deliver many big laughs. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Whether you'll want to go the distance with "Big Day" will probably rest on how close you feel to the family. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: The show often goes to annoying extremes. Read full review
40
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Too often, “Big Day” evokes the unpleasantness of pre-wedding stress, without mining the nuptial process for creative, original laughs. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Big Day is forced and tiring, although Wendie Malick is a delirious hoot as the bride's pushy mom. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Despite its formal ambition, "Big Day" is disappointingly ordinary. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The question, still open, is whether the writers can pack enough comic caffeine into the next 21 weeks to keep viewers along for the ride. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The show is all structure and no substance. Read full review
30
Variety
Season 1 Review: With too many one-note jokes and characters, insufficient barrel laughs and too much controlled chaos, "Big Day" will be lucky if it even makes it to the afternoon let alone a walk down the aisle. Read full review
30
Washington PostTeresa Wiltz
Season 1 Review: "Big Day"... doesn't have an original bone in its carefully constructed body, which would be a pardonable offense if it were actually funny. Which, alas, it is not. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Big Day has no likable characters. [1 Dec 2006, p.72]
25
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: One of the most puzzling things about TV this year is the mere existence of this catastrophe. It is a huge, huge pile. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Big Day should be retitled "The Longest Day," as it spends an entire season showing us how many dreadfully unfunny complications can spoil a single wedding day. Read full review
10
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: The situations are predictable, the writing is unfunny and the cast is forced to overplay every scene in hopes of generating something resembling a chuckle. Read full review
10
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: A stinking pile of unlikely plot twists, brain-dead dialogue and cardboard characters. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: "Big Day" is basically bad community theater with music clearances. Read full review
10
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: [A] laugh-free comedy. Read full review
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