Hank

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 30, 2009
Metascore
36

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 22
  3. Negative: 13 out of 22

Critic Reviews

  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Katherine Stevens
    38
    Hank is a multi-camera sitcom shot on a cheap-looking set with a forgettable supporting cast speaking rarely funny dialogue.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    A junky sitcom that isn’t old school so much as mold school.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    While Hank doesn't promise to add much cachet to those Hall of Fame credentials, this is a show transparently designed for paychecks, not posterity.
  5. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    30
    The result is a silly, one-dimensional cartoon of a family that I am guessing viewers will start tuning out before the half hour ends.
  6. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    30
    There's an unfortunate whiff of Marie Antoinette about Grammer's breezily ungrounded Hank.
  7. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    30
    In Hank, pompous comes off as merely pitiful. Or it would, if you could waste even a moment feeling sorry for anyone but the viewers, for whom the laugh track's likely to serve as a bitter reminder that somewhere, someone else is having a good time.
  8. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    30
    In a bad sitcom, everybody dies, as the laugh track gets louder and louder, and Hank, though it isn't a horror, has that loud laugh track and the slight, familiar scent of death.
  9. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    30
    Hank is the kind of show Dr. Frasier Crane would sneer at, which makes it particularly sad to see Kelsey Grammer reduced to starring in this ABC sitcom as a Dumb Daddy.
  10. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    30
    It’s lazy, predictable and spectacularly tone-deaf.
  11. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    30
    This new version works so hard to not fall flat on its face that of course it falls flat on its face.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    25
    Hank, is one of the worst new (or old) comedies of this or many other seasons.
  13. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    25
    Grammer's so much better than the unfunny show that has been built around him.
  14. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    0
    A moronic and ghastly effort that suffocates under the cloying and annoying blanket of a laugh track so disturbing it should be destroyed.

Awards & Rankings

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#76 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
62
#62 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

User Reviews

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User Score
4.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 29 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 29
  3. Negative: 15 out of 29
  1. ShawnL
    Oct 19, 2009
    7
    Not extremely funny, but will still give a good laugh here and then. At least it's clean and appropriate, which is something that most Not extremely funny, but will still give a good laugh here and then. At least it's clean and appropriate, which is something that most shows don't try to be these days. Give it a chance, it's not as bad as the critics say it is.… Full Review »
  2. AngelaG
    Oct 8, 2009
    8
    I like this show- characters aren't jaded, well except maybe the daughter. I like Hank's enthusiasm. And the idea of someone losing I like this show- characters aren't jaded, well except maybe the daughter. I like Hank's enthusiasm. And the idea of someone losing their job and having to start over is particularly relevant right now.… Full Review »
  3. EstherM.
    Oct 3, 2009
    2
    Bad writing. Overacted. Irritating.
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