Free Ride
FOX | Release Date: March 1, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
14
Negative:
8

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: This "Free Ride," I suspect, will be over very soon. Read full review
30
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: "Free Ride" is crude, mean-spirited, and not nearly as fresh and innovative as the producers think it is. Read full review
30
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: Harmless and intermittently amusing, winning points by letting its actors indulge in improvisation, "Free Ride" is nevertheless about as unpromising as its lead character's aimless career goals. Read full review
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: "Free Ride," though improvised, feels like every other Fox comedy that has come and gone: It has generic young stars stuck in a stale boy-pines-for-girl story line. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: Tonight's premiere episode doesn't have a single laugh in it. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: This is a series that shimmers with potential -- until Dove shows up. Someone at the network must have thought "Free Ride" was too irreverently weird and creatively nuanced, so they made Dove as annoyingly cartoonish as possible. Read full review
10
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: This kind of comedy only stands a dim ghost of a chance if it has a lot of gratuitous nudity and substance abuse, along with the words ''National Lampoon'' in the title. Read full review
10
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Everything's so shrill and flat, it's hard to tell when the writing stops and the improvisation begins. Read full review
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