NBC | Release Date: August 23, 1990
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4
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Miami HeraldHal BoedekerMay 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: Schlatter is smug and superficial, nothing more. He has no chemistry with his love interest, the pretty but vacant Sloan (Ami Dolenz). The other actors are reduced to slogging through caricatures. It's going to get pretty boring, week after week. [23 Aug 1990, p.1]
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USA TodayMatt RoushMay 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: He's also just not very funny. Smug monologues to the camera about how life is like volleyball or driving won't have you rolling, and his misadventures - of the high-tech, computer-hacking variety - are awfully predictable. [23 Aug 1990, p.3D]
10
Washington PostTom ShalesMay 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: Ferris Bueller is the proverbial lead balloon. [23 Aug 1990, p.D1]
10
Orlando SentinelGreg DawsonMay 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's hard to say why Charlie Schlatter is so annoying as TV's version of the high school prankster played by Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller's Day Off...But whatever it is - maybe consummate smugness - makes for a thoroughly irritating television experience. [23 Aug 1990, p.E1]