Brothers

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2009
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
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Critic Reviews

  1. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    60
    Strahan's not yet up to his cast mates' level and the writing's uneven in tonight's back-to-back episodes--producers need, for instance, to figure out just how serious Weathers' character's forgetfulness is meant to be--but there are a few great moments.
  2. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    60
    Brothers really is not that bad a show.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    58
    Neither offensive nor particularly funny, it's merely another average, laugh-track-addled sitcom. The four leads are fine; they just need better material.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    50
    Brothers starts with a noble idea: Bring two estranged adult brothers together by forcing them to live in their parents' house again. It just doesn't quite achieve either poignance or real comedy.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    50
    The balance between humor and pathos is a hard one, and this show teeters on the edge and occasionally falls flat.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    50
    A peppy but mediocre sitcom.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    40
    Watching this show was the worst kind of sitcom experience--mediocre material, piercing laugh track noise, wasted talent, and a memory-impaired father who is fascinated by the fact that some men shave their “wiggly-dos.’’
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    40
    While the idea doubtless looked good on the chalkboard, Brothers turns out to be all game plan, and no game.