Freak Show

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Season 1
User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 26
  3. Negative: 8 out of 26

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  1. MikeB
    Oct 9, 2006
    3
    This is just a bad show. The animation is poor, the jokes poorer, and the characters are boring as all get-out. The old couple were the best characters in the premiere and even then they paled in comparison to South Park's dullest moments. Hopefully this show will be shorter-lived than Comedy Central's other humorless freakfest, Drawn Together, which amazingly started its third This is just a bad show. The animation is poor, the jokes poorer, and the characters are boring as all get-out. The old couple were the best characters in the premiere and even then they paled in comparison to South Park's dullest moments. Hopefully this show will be shorter-lived than Comedy Central's other humorless freakfest, Drawn Together, which amazingly started its third season last Thursday for reasons incomprehensible to anyone with a sense of humor.… Expand
  2. misterwogan
    Oct 16, 2006
    1
    Incredibly unfunny - I may have smiled once in the whole twenty two minutes of the pilot episode. Hopefully it will improve as the series gets into it's stride but this was just bad. To compare this to South Park - especially the last two wonderful epiodes is just plain sloppy.
  3. ChuckW
    Oct 11, 2006
    0
    Unoriginal.........mix of Blankman the movie... bumbling dopey... with a dash of wanna be eccentric HBO Carivale characters with obvious contemporarily hip cookie cut out trendy subject matter ....gays...politics....society.... below the true capabilities of David Cross.
  4. BrianA
    Oct 19, 2006
    2
    I like David Cross, This show does have the potential to be funny but it just seems to try to hard, this is the second time watching it and it started out okay then just fell apart.

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Whitney Pastorek
    67
    This superhero spoof's odd humor manages to distract from the shudders... but just barely. [6 Oct 2006, p.63]
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    80
    Outrageous, bizarre, effortlessly hip and unsubtle in magically edgy ways.
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  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    80
    Alternately goofy and smartly satirical, ["Freak Show"] may be the best companion to "South Park" Comedy Central has come up with yet.
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