- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 15, 2016
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Like Hot In Cleveland, it’s throwback TV, with all the unfussy charms that implies. Some weak conceptual components aside, what it offers is the warm comfort of the familiar.
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A genial, old-fashioned--nay, prehistoric--family sitcom on the wrong network.
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Every single thing about Crowded feels familiar, as if we've seen it many times, which we have.
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The series is not crowded with laughter, but things begin to look up by the third episode.
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The comedy comes off as a less funny “Modern Family,” with the daughters uncannily similar (one’s dim and fashionable; the other is smart and geeky) to the “MF” girls.
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It's a new show that feels very much like an old show. Like shows we've seen umpteen times before.
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Preston and Warburton have enough genuine chemistry to make me wish Crowded were a show about middle-age people trying to figure out who they are beyond parents, instead of one about parents trying to find a quiet place to fool around where their annoying children won't interrupt them.
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Crowded has a couple of laughs--mostly due to Warburton’s deadpan reactions --but mostly it mines well-trod sitcom ground with jokes on parents smoking pot (they get the munchies!) and old people yelling.
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Really, it’s only Warburton who’s able to muster the rare amusing moment, and that’s not because of his lines, but rather the way he delivers them, with his unique combination of squints and grimaces and slow-drawl responses.
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Mr. Warburton is his usual deadpan self as Mike, which makes him seem decidedly out of place in this household, where everyone else is over-energized and overacting. This series, created by Suzanne Martin and inspired by her own life, has a throwback feel, with lots of quick gags and not much depth.
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Crowded feels like a throwback on every conceivable level.
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Warburton's expressionlessly ironic delivery turns repetitious; the situations unfunny and even creepy (do daughters really announce their alternative sexual proclivities by making out with a girlfriend in front of dad?) By the end of the second episode, you may even find yourself longing for a good Bill Cosby rape joke.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 32
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Mixed: 7 out of 32
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Negative: 12 out of 32
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Mar 24, 2016
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May 17, 2016
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Mar 18, 2016