Danny

CBS | Release Date: September 28, 2001

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42	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews

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Critic Reviews

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Robert P. LaurenceAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: A likable, even enjoyable, but hazily defined series with no clear sense of where it wants to go. [28 Sept 2001, p.E-12]

Tim GoodmanAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: Look, he's got a good heart, and with a few more comic moments this show could fly. Read full review

Laura FriesAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: At least Danny is more heartfelt and poignant than the average sitcom. Read full review

Howard RosenbergAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: It's a warm, gentle, amiable little comedy, one calibrated to smiles instead of punch lines followed by noisy laugh tracks. Read full review

Hal BoedekerAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: It's pleasant and low-key but also slight and forgettable. Read full review

Aaron BarnhartAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: In its favor, Danny has no laugh track, and Stern is endearingly innocent of the perils of single fatherhood. But viewers have moved beyond conventional comedies like this one. [28 Sept 2001, p.E1]

Ed BarkAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: Friday's premiere episode is marginally tolerable and includes a cute little scene in which Danny turns a dance class for little girls into a football game. But a second episode sent for preview is a big, broad step backward. [28 Sept 2001, p.3C]

Phil RosenthalAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: When Danny is a last-minute fill-in as a ballet instructor, you're inclined to forgive this amiable but aimless show its shortcomings and succumb to Stern's charms. Almost. [28 Sept 2001, p.48]

Matthew GilbertAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: The show has an earnest tone that deadens some of the comedy, and there are a few too-obvious attempts at cuteness, notably a sequence in which Stern takes over a ballet class filled with little girls. But it's never brash or bottom-feeding, and it kindly avoids the use of a laugh track. Like most filler series, Danny is mild and predictable from top to bottom. Read full review

John LevesqueAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: While we can empathize completely with a grown man's desire to stay connected to his youth, Stern handles it unconvincingly. [28 Sept 2001, p.C1]

Steve JohnsonAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: This one should be found in the greeting-card aisle, not on a major network's prime-time schedule. Read full review

Bill GoodykoontzAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: As unremarkable as it sounds. [28 Sept 2001, p.1E]

Marisa GuthrieAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: Stern, who starred in the "Home Alone" and "City Slickers" movies, isn't devoid of comic instincts. Perhaps that's why he seems to be going through the motions here with a barely concealed smirk. Read full review

Robert BiancoAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: [Stern] goes through the show with a frozen, stupid smile and a gratingly high-pitched delivery, overreacting to every line with a nervous geek laugh. It's like he has morphed into Chris Elliott, which is not a compliment. [28 Sept 2001, p.6E]

Jonathan StormAug 22, 2015

Season 1 Review: A tired old thing. That's usually a bad sign for a brand new show. Daniel Stern plays a single dad who runs the local rec center. CBS changed the original title, American Wreck, probably because it was too accurate. [27 Sept 2001, p.D01]

Ann HodgesAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: No wonder Danny doesn't have a laugh track. Who's laughing? Read full review

Tom LongAug 21, 2015

Season 1 Review: This show was originally called "American Wreck", until somebody at CBS realized that could be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's not a wreck, really, it just never gets rolling in any direction that looks interesting enough to follow.