Glory Daze
TBS | Release Date: November 16, 2010
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
VarietyBrian LowryNov 15, 2010
Season 1 Review: Granted, the writers recycle so many gags--from the stirring pledge speech to a loopy pot-hazed discussion about time being "a fluid concept"--that there's a temptation to wince at Glory Daze's brazenness. Still, it's all done in such an unabashed way it's sort of hard to stay mad at them. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanNov 12, 2010
Season 1 Review: Glory Daze is both unexpectedly funny, at times heartwarming and the sheen of nostalgia covers up a lot of stuff you might otherwise get picky about. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda StasiNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: Clearly they've studied both movies and can mimic the moves, but they just don't hear the music. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: Yet if the pilot is generic and wan, it is at least sweet-tempered and not completely offensive (though this is somewhat at odds with its cinematic heritage). Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: If Harris, who's clearly meant to steal every scene he's in, seems a little too cool to be hanging out with the brothers from Omega Sigma, whose deficiencies haven't yet been fully cataloged, it's still not nearly as cool as he's going to need to be if he's to lead this slightly tired toga party right into "Conan's" waiting arms. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyJohn YoungNov 15, 2010
Season 1 Review: The resulting frat humor fluctuates between ill-conceived gags (someone gets tasered in the scrotum) and some juicy zingers, while the ragtag supporting cast (including Tim Meadows as a paranoid history professor) has potential. Ultimately, though, it's impossible to shake the feeling that we've seen, if not exactly lived, this all before. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige WiserNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: I would say Glory Daze is an homage to "National Lampoon's Animal House," except that it's more an inept imitation that borders on insulting. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: It's an average piece of work, crammed with every frat-boy cliche you can imagine, and cast with actors who don't initially stand out. Read full review
40
SlateTroy PattersonNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: Glory Daze is a frathouse-of-mirth comedy and so generic in its particulars that it is barely even necessary to describe its characters and their situation. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: It's be one thing if the show employed thinly drawn, cliched characters in service of solid comedy, but very little of Glory Daze is actually funny. Read full review
40
HitfixAlan SepinwallNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: The problem is that Glory Daze itself never stakes a claim to its own identity. It's tonally all over the map--and that inconsistency gets in the way of the few potential laughs. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: While the fixings are here for genuine humor, Glory Daze repeatedly settles for quick-and-dirty. That's frustrating, even though it's understandable to some extent, because the audience for that style of comedy clearly exists. Read full review
40
PopMattersThomas BrittNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: The first episode offers little to recommend. However, if the show can keep up with the boys as they undergo their own awakenings, then it might eventually offer something fresh to the campus comedy canon. If not, the series will become a comedy of last resort. Read full review
40
The New York TimesGinia BellafanteNov 15, 2010
Season 1 Review: Nothing in the premiere episode ever gets as creative as that bit of casting. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenNov 15, 2010
Season 1 Review: It's not funny enough, the characters don't make much of an impression and the "Porky's"-style humor is too tame to have the requisite impact. Read full review
25
NewsdayVerne GayNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: The appealing cast valiantly tries to hack its way through the dense underbrush of jokes about frats and testicles and cannabis. But the harder they hack, the hackier it all becomes. Before long, the jungle has won. The show, and viewer, have lost. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: While the actors in Glory Days are attractive and not without talent, they're ill served by the hackneyed writing and desperate plot. These boys have only one thing on their minds and it isn't matriculation. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardNov 16, 2010
Season 1 Review: TBS has concocted a show once considered to be unimaginable: A college comedy so badly written, acted and executed, so deficit in any jokes or diversions that even a stoner wouldn't be able to enjoy it. Read full review
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