- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 23, 2023
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Extended Family has the bones to be a memorable sitcom, but only the desire to be something generally relatable — even for divorced families with, perish the thought, only the finances to have a maximum of two residences — and likable. There’s enough here to possibly check back in on Extended Family in the future, but I probably won’t remember to.
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The central trio does what sitcom stars are supposed to do, following Cryer’s lead and keeping to the family-comedy task at hand. Too often, though, it’s the show that appears to be powering through—enduring the potentially interesting or offbeat stuff so that it can get back to its creaky familiarity.
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Despite game efforts by Jon Cryer (“Two and a Half Men”) and Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) “Extended Family” is the kind of sitcom that gives multi-cam comedies a bad name.