Ferris Bueller

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 23, 1990
Metascore
38

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 4 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    May 5, 2014
    30
    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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  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    May 5, 2014
    20
    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]
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    May 5, 2014
    10
    Ferris Bueller is the proverbial lead balloon. [23 Aug 1990, p.D1]
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  5. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Greg Dawson
    May 5, 2014
    10
    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]
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