Free Ride

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 1, 2006
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 26
  3. Negative: 8 out of 26

Critic Reviews

  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    This "Free Ride," I suspect, will be over very soon.
  2. San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times
    Reviewed by: Charlie McCollum
    30
    "Free Ride" is crude, mean-spirited, and not nearly as fresh and innovative as the producers think it is.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Sid Smith
    30
    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.
  5. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    30
    "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.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    25
    Tonight's premiere episode doesn't have a single laugh in it.
  7. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    25
    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.
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    10
    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.
  9. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    10
    Everything's so shrill and flat, it's hard to tell when the writing stops and the improvisation begins.

Awards & Rankings

81
#81 Best TV Season of 2006
49
#49 Most Discussed TV Season of 2006

User Reviews

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 58 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 58
  3. Negative: 22 out of 58
  1. JulesB.
    Sep 16, 2007
    10
    This was a funny show. I wish you would bring it back. Parents who have kids going off to college or graduating from college and coming home This was a funny show. I wish you would bring it back. Parents who have kids going off to college or graduating from college and coming home again LOVED this SHOW!! I hope it goes to DVD. Nate, his parents and Nate's best friend were hilarious!!!!… Full Review »
  2. sucksddean
    Feb 6, 2007
    0
    awful. the lead actor kid, josh?? whatever his name is - i cannot stand him.
  3. dennismennis
    Feb 6, 2007
    0
    family members should not be able to vote! the show was cancelled because it was awful. if people tuned in and gave it ratings then the family members should not be able to vote! the show was cancelled because it was awful. if people tuned in and gave it ratings then the network would have kept it-let it go mothers, fathers, grandmas, granpas- your actor relitives took part in a crappy show and most of them are bad actors!!… Full Review »
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