Big Lake

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Season 1
Metascore
42

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 5 out of 11

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    It's just a flat traditional sitcom built around lazy, repetitive jokes and audience cackles. It's just bad.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    30
    Broadly limned, Big Lake works neither as a satire--and it stops trying after the delivery of Josh's back story--nor as an adventure in surrealist comedy, and it is tough to watch the strain for eccentricity.
  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    30
    The mock-retro sitcom Big Lake, which boasts big-name producers (Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, whose The Other Guys is currently in theaters) but little in the way of actual comedy.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Randee Dawn
    20
    With this much bad acting and writing, this body of water should be declared a Superfund site.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    20
    Having endured two installments, it's frankly hard to imagine anybody wading through Big Lake 98 more times.