Happy Hour
FOX | Release Date: September 7, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
16

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: The idle, boozy time between one romantic relationship and the next turns out to be a sweet spot for a sitcom. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Thanks to some happy casting, the show's not actually unwatchable. Read full review
40
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: The few good laughs in an otherwise so-so show are supplied by the slyly wigged-out Beth Lacke. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: It squanders committed acting and funny lines by draping them over a suspect premise. Read full review
38
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: A bad morph-job of "Seinfeld" and "Friends" but without the simplicity of the first, the chemistry of the second or the brilliance, timing, and writing of either. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: There's not a moment or character that rings true, and the only joke you're likely to remember is an anatomical gag you'd probably rather forget. Read full review
30
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: I don’t get a kick out of you, “Happy Hour.” Read full review
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: This is merely another dead-on-arrival series to add to the mountain of failures Fox has hurled our way over the past few seasons. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Lacke is the only person, or thing, in "Happy Hour" that made me laugh. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Given this straitjacket of a script, it's hard to know how good the cast could be with decent material. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: "Happy Hour," or as I like to call it: "Really, Fox? This?" Read full review
20
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Both shows ["Happy Hour" and "'Til Death"] bill themselves as comedies, but really, it's hard to find two less funny half hours on the network schedule. Read full review
20
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: The show is a warped copy of CBS' How I Met Your Mother... except that it's cynical, smug and utterly charmless. Read full review
12
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Preposterously unfunny. Read full review
10
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Painfully familiar and virtually laugh-free, the series has one character with potential, but beyond that, it's hard to imagine Fox won't be yelling "last call" relatively soon. Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: At least "'Til Death" has some known stars. The cast of "Happy Hour" will likely remain unknown, starring, as they do, in this dud. Read full review
10
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Larry, Henry and virtually every person to walk through "Happy Hour" are broad, obnoxious, lame caricatures, even by the standards of Fox's laughtracked sitcoms. Read full review
10
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The fall's lamest new comedy. Read full review
0
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Sheer, excruciating pain.... "Happy Hour" stands a good chance of being named Worst New Show, or at least feeblest new sitcom. Read full review
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