Hot Properties
ABC | Release Date: October 7, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
14

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: A raunchy, mostly forgettable female bonding sitcom. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Hot Properties has a loose, engaging silliness. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]
70
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: While "Hot Properties" doesn't generate big guffaws, there's a breezy quality to it that makes for good company at what's mercifully a lower decibel level than its lead-in or the WBthe WB's competing "Living With Fran." Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Ever since Sex and the City proved you could update Designing Women for a shallower audience by amping up the sex and removing the social content, TV writers have been trying without success to replicate the trick. Though Hot Properties feels too forced and a bit old-hat, it comes closer than most, thanks to a strong cast and a few genuinely funny lines. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: This is sassy and superficial but also entertaining, and that's really all it aspires to be. Read full review
60
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: There was a lot more to Sex and the City than menage a trois jokes, and whether Hot Properties can move beyond smutty snickers to develop real characters and story lines remains to be seen. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Despite the actresses' happy energy, ''Hot Properties" falls into terribly familiar comic territory. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: There are some funny moments on "Hot Properties," but few surprises. It's a very conventional, even sedate sitcom about sex. Read full review
30
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: It's Designing Women without the heart, Sex and the City without the wit. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: A disappointingly sex-obsessed sitcom. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyDalton Ross
Season 1 Review: The few genuinely funny lines... are immediately buried in an avalance of canned laughs. [7 Oct 2005, p.67]
20
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: This "Sex and the City" wannabe contains neither heat nor giggles. Read full review
20
SlateDana Stevens
Season 1 Review: Despite an abundance of painfully suggestive one-liners, Hot Properties feels tepid and static. What's worse for a show designed to appeal to female audiences, it feels misogynistic. Read full review
20
Washington PostChip Crews
Season 1 Review: A big problem with "Hot Properties" is its hollow core. Read full review
12
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: "Hot Properties" is such a stiff and unfunny sitcom that it's hard to imagine how it got on the air. Read full review
12
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: If you remember nothing about this column, remember this: "Hot Properties" is stupid and annoying. Read full review
10
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: A lame, tawdry sitcom with unfunny sex jokes. Read full review
10
Chicago Tribune
Season 1 Review: This shameless, decidedly unfunny look at women in a Manhattan real estate office is mostly an excuse for stale, transparent, cutesy sex jokes, the sort of self-degrading stuff few self-respecting women would tolerate. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: We're to believe ABC took a look at all this and said, yes, yes and yes. Read full review
10
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: ABC's little-girl gang of four represents nothing more than cliches. Read full review
0
Cleveland Plain DealerMark Dawidziak
Season 1 Review: This is a leading contender for the title of worst new show of the season. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: Oh, and there's a very pink teapot on their coffee table. It's easy to take note of such set pieces when you're in the process of not laughing. Read full review
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