Ground Floor
TBS | Release Date: November 14, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
NewsdayDiane WertsNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: [Bill Lawrence] scores again here, with an instantly appealing ensemble, from Astin's "soulless upstairs tool" to Rory Scovel as the downstairs dude from "a very competitive community college. Read full review
83
HitfixAlan SepinwallNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's a simple idea, and the supporting characters on both floors are fairly broad and familiar types, but the execution is good. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: We like the people and the jokes are funny. We know there’s something vulnerable and even poignant behind that barrage of one-liners. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubEmily VanDerWerffNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: While Ground Floor achieves its deliberately modest aims, it also leaves the viewer wondering if something more might have been accomplished with that premise, particularly with the enjoyable Heelan in the female lead. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanNov 15, 2013
Season 1 Review: When the jokes are hit and miss, McGinley and Scovel can easily salvage them. While the chemistry between Astin and Heelan isn't really palpable, both characters grow on you after a couple of episodes and everybody else in the cast also manages to elevate the material whenever it falters. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's the best original comedy TBS has yet produced--which may not be saying much, but given the mostly lousy track record among broadcast sitcoms this fall, it's hardly bargain basement. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: McGinley is delightfully obnoxious, and the young lovers are quite sweet, but it's the undercurrent of resentment flowing in two directions that raises Ground Floor, if not to TV comedy's penthouse, at least to its second floor. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: Ground Floor doesn’t make much of an impression initially. But stick with it for three or four episodes and it grows on you. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: There is a professional efficiency to much of the comedy. (It is funny sometimes.) Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: [Ground Floor] yields an occasional chuckle; it’s just more of a slacker than an overachiever. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: One thing that might improve this office comedy is a few pink slips--upstairs, downstairs and off-camera. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: Most of the young, relatively untested actors in Ground Floor are not nearly as talented at creating endearing characters; in the first two episodes the characters are mostly just ciphers. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandNov 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: The new worst show of the fall season. Read full review
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