Free Ride

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

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  1. mariat
    Mar 12, 2006
    0
    Horrible I wasted about 5 minutes of my life then went back ten minutes alter and upset myself more. How is funding this crap?? Is it also a how not to act show because all perfessional good actors without work right now should be angry and ready to riot!!
  2. Adam
    Mar 2, 2006
    1
    I went into the show really wanting to like it... but I juts didn't. I did not find anything funny really.
  3. Eli
    Apr 4, 2006
    3
    Crappy sitcom all around. Just another show that will be cancelled sooner or later. Free ride simply isn't funny. I have only watched one episode and was completely dissapointed. The plotline of the episode i was watching involved the main character trying to get close to some girl through her stepbrother and in the process they say bastard a lot, very amusing....not. This show fails Crappy sitcom all around. Just another show that will be cancelled sooner or later. Free ride simply isn't funny. I have only watched one episode and was completely dissapointed. The plotline of the episode i was watching involved the main character trying to get close to some girl through her stepbrother and in the process they say bastard a lot, very amusing....not. This show fails joke after joke and didn't manage make me even smile. Free ride sucks.… Expand
  4. allisonf
    Mar 12, 2006
    2
    not as good as any other shows on tv. The acting is bad i am assuming these people are comedians? I think we should start casting shows with talented actors I am sure there are a lot of them out there in LA waiting for a show they cann sink there teeth into. The lead guy, Josh Dean is BORING!!!
  5. JacksonF
    Mar 12, 2006
    0
    Bad acting, bad jokes. one should pick a lead actor that can carry a show. josh dean looks like some casting director found him in a starbucks and said hey you look very boy next doorish want to be in a show because i am too busy to audition good actors to do it. Josh said yes. and now we all get to suffer
  6. JoshS
    Mar 12, 2006
    0
    Nothing like arrested development and a show filled with no laughs at all. Josh Dean looks like he is about to crack up at his own joke. The acting is awful and everyone in it would not even do a good acting job at the sereal life show. Question why are we putting non- talented actors on television?? What producers are they sleeping with??
  7. roseH
    Mar 13, 2006
    0
    Read that it's moving to a sunday time slot. Good no more crappy shows taking up good television watching week days. I never watch tv on sunday so perfect place for this awful excuse for a show. It felt like i was watching some television students with a first year acting students trying to make a show.
  8. MIkeL
    Mar 5, 2006
    3
    Can I point out one way it's NOT like "Arrested"? This straight man is not remotely likeable. Cynical kid comes home to sponge off his folks and they say no...Michael Bluth he ain't.
  9. TylerS
    Apr 9, 2006
    0
    This show is terrible. There are funny people who can improvise well, and then there are those on Free Ride. Throughout the whole show I was thinking "who writes this crap?" Then, I realized it has that improvised feel, so I checked it out, and of course, it is improvised. Unlike other improv shows, this one is not funny in the least. It takes really funny people to make improv shows This show is terrible. There are funny people who can improvise well, and then there are those on Free Ride. Throughout the whole show I was thinking "who writes this crap?" Then, I realized it has that improvised feel, so I checked it out, and of course, it is improvised. Unlike other improv shows, this one is not funny in the least. It takes really funny people to make improv shows worthwhile, and these aren't them.… Expand
  10. amandaw
    Jun 6, 2006
    0
    thank god i heard it's all over. we are in need of a better tv revolution!!!!
  11. 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 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!!
  12. sucksddean
    Feb 6, 2007
    0
    awful. the lead actor kid, josh?? whatever his name is - i cannot stand him.
  13. gregf
    Mar 12, 2006
    3
    my friend said to watch it- well begged me and said to write in and say it's amazing- but i can't. they are friends with the lead actor. that is how bad the show is this guy is asking freinds to watch it and making them write to anyone so it can get picked up- wow he knows it sucks to.
  14. williamd
    Mar 12, 2006
    1
    I got a mass email saying i should support and write leters to say it's good. Man the show was BAD. Everyone should be ashamed as actors. We are not just inventing television programming anymore. We need ot step it up. we need shoes that are better then sienfield, friends, sex and the city, six feet under. Not Free Ride. Every actor in it should get a free ride to bad acting land- I got a mass email saying i should support and write leters to say it's good. Man the show was BAD. Everyone should be ashamed as actors. We are not just inventing television programming anymore. We need ot step it up. we need shoes that are better then sienfield, friends, sex and the city, six feet under. Not Free Ride. Every actor in it should get a free ride to bad acting land- they cannopt dfo even the job they chose as a profession well.… Expand
  15. KeagenS
    Mar 12, 2006
    0
    i want my 15 minutes of watching back. That show robbed my life of 15 mnutes. i nurtured for as long as i could then wanted to cry.
  16. billM
    May 12, 2006
    0
    watched the first show, thought it was some of the worst writing i had seen in a while and then i heard that some of it is improvised- makes sense. the acting was worse then day time soaps and i am happy that it is off the air- we can make betterv television
  17. angelas
    May 12, 2006
    0
    oh God, this show is really bad.. my husband and i both decided to give up watching so much tv- we have this show to thank. i hope it never is released to dvd- what a waste of time for everybody that worked on it.
  18. HensonA
    Feb 27, 2006
    0
    Replace Arrested Development with this? (Hint: Stupid)
  19. rubyS
    Mar 19, 2006
    0
    everyone said it already. it's horrible. baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
  20. JasminH
    May 12, 2006
    0
    wooohooo, the show has been cancelled. There is a God. now the cast can go sell coffee at a starbucks where they belong

Awards & Rankings

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

Critic Reviews

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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
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    There's a breezy charm to the show.
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  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.
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  3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    50
    More of an amusing diversion than a laugh riot.
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