- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 28, 2006
Critic Reviews
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Big Day has no likable characters. [1 Dec 2006, p.72]
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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.
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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.
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One of the most puzzling things about TV this year is the mere existence of this catastrophe. It is a huge, huge pile.
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Too often, “Big Day” evokes the unpleasantness of pre-wedding stress, without mining the nuptial process for creative, original laughs.
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The larger problem may be whether there's enough material to cover an entire season.
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Big Day is forced and tiring, although Wendie Malick is a delirious hoot as the bride's pushy mom.
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"Big Day" doesn't feel like a big hit, but it is intermittently amusing.
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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.
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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.
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Despite its formal ambition, "Big Day" is disappointingly ordinary.
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"Big Day" just doesn't deliver many big laughs.
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A stinking pile of unlikely plot twists, brain-dead dialogue and cardboard characters.
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"Big Day" is basically bad community theater with music clearances.
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A lot of this is pretty funny, but for 24 episodes?
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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.
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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.
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A harmless and mostly fun little sitcom.
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Whether you'll want to go the distance with "Big Day" will probably rest on how close you feel to the family.
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The show often goes to annoying extremes.
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[A] laugh-free comedy.
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“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.
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The show is all structure and no substance.
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"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.
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There are small funny moments along the way. [4 Dec 2006, p.39]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 19
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Mixed: 0 out of 19
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Negative: 4 out of 19
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CJBurkartMar 29, 2007
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francescadMar 23, 2007Great show!
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BryanCFeb 18, 2007Awesome! Hilarius. Hope they air the final episode or release it on DVD. Another season would be great too.