Farmer Wants a Wife
The CW | CW | Release Date: April 30, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
42
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: It's trying to be juicy, stupid fun, but it isn't smart enough. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: This farmer may want a wife but, in the end, the only guarantee is that he gets a reality show. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Farmer Wants a Wife feels about as "real" as "The Dukes of Hazzard," suggesting it should be viewed in much the same spirit. Read full review
40
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Farmer Wants a Wife moseyed onto the air last week bearing the best title of any pop-culture commodity of the year to date and, given its standard-issue inanity, a surprising subtextual richness. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It's entirely paint-by-numbers, a formulaic dating contest colored in with all the too-familiar characters, from the butch Matt to each of the ladies, city gals looking for a real man who doesn't bother with all that metrosexual nonsense. This is reality by rote. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: The American Farmer is more... American: another intermittently nasty competition dating show, with stunt challenges and a ritualized elimination at the end of every episode. Read full review
30
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Despite its silly trappings, Farmer Wants a Wife is neither appalling nor unintentionally funny enough to merit sitting through yet another contrived dating show where the biggest prize would be for someone, anyone, to escape with a bit of their dignity intact. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: It's strictly entertainment. Assuming that's what you call it when one guy's ordering 10 aspiring brides through a series of ridiculously staged agricultural challenges to find the one who'll win the right to have her name mentioned in People magazine when they break up. Read full review
30
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Viewers should figure out pretty quickly that manure is the main ingredient here, and though it might help the corn crop grow high, it's unlikely to do much to boost ratings at the struggling CW network. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Heavily produced, the series has some ratings potential by CW's chicken-feed standards but doesn't feel distinctive or titillating enough to keep 'em down on the farm. Read full review
30
Washington PostJennifer Frey
Season 1 Review: Finally, a reality show that doesn't even try to pretend it's not a big, cliched setup. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
Season 1 Review: It's a few chickens short of a flock. Read full review
25
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Matt produces two products in surplus amounts: cheese and corn. And I'm not talking by-products of animal husbandry. Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: American television networks have aired many ridiculous reality shows, but The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife is a master class in televised inanity. Read full review
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