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 Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Randee Dawn
    20
    With this much bad acting and writing, this body of water should be declared a Superfund site.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  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.