Fuller House
Netflix | Release Date: February 27, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
15
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30
TimeDaniel D'AddarioFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House has nothing more to offer than a look at what an old show’s actors and format look like in the present day. It’s an utter failure of ambition in exactly the same way as was Fox’s recent X-Files reboot. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House begins as a sitcom family reunion. It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: While Fuller House is bad, it's endurable, and it works well when assessed on its own terms. Read full review
30
SlateWilla PaskinFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is a dopey sitcom, but you can watch it with your entire family without offending anything but your intelligence. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJoshua AlstonFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Earnestness was Full House’s selling point, but Fuller House is too contrived to be sincere. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandFeb 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: The episodes are predictable because they’re unoriginal and the writing is painful. The canned laughter is perhaps the greatest reminder of the “good old days.” If only all those recorded voices had something legitimate to laugh at. Read full review
20
Philadelphia Daily NewsMolly EichelFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: It accomplishes what it sets out to do--be a bland family sitcom playing to a nostalgic audience. But that doesn't mean it's any good. Read full review
20
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is like the childhood friend who never grew up, who still lives at home, still hangs out at places frequented by teenagers, still makes the same dated pop-culture references. Visiting that person usually isn’t fun; it’s just sad. Read full review
20
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: There’s a plot, but it’s basically a series of entrances, exits, and signature bits designed to elicit roars from the studio audience. Even if you share the love, it’s just bad TV. Read full review
20
ColliderAllison KeeneFeb 23, 2016
Season 1 Review: A series that confuses nostalgia with humor, terrible writing with throwback fun, and humiliation for “lesson learning” (this mostly falls to Kimmy, who really gets dragged through it). Read full review
10
Boston GlobeIsaac Feldberg Feb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House never justifies its own existence, let alone why the uninitiated should give it a chance. Read full review
10
The WrapNed EhrbarFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: There are so many self-satisfied references to the off-screen lives of the stars and what’s happened to them in the intervening years, you might sometimes think you’re watching a “Saturday Night Live” skit version of the show. Read full review
10
Washington PostHank StueverFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Netflix’s 13-episode revival of the old ABC sitcom “Full House” is less an update than an irony-free pantomime of the past. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergFeb 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is a mawkish, grating, broadly played chip off the Full House block. It's doubtful that there will be a more painful 2016 TV episode than the Fuller House pilot, which takes an inexcusable 35 minutes to establish a plot that is just an inversion of the original Full House premise. Read full review
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IndieWireBen TraversFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: The blend of genres that subtract from each other speaks to the overall lack of effort from the series' writers (self-evident), actors (who can't even master one choreographed dance sequence among many) and producers (who are clearly in this for the money). Read full review
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