How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)
ABC | Release Date: April 3, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
NewsdayVerne GayApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: Initial impression: It fits. Fans of Chalke will remain fans, and everyone who long ago realized that Elizabeth Perkins was the best thing about "Weeds" will as well. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: This is still a charming series, and the cast gets plenty of mileage out of the role-reversal at the show’s heart. Read full review
70
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Carina Adly MacKenzieApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: It feels like a happy medium between "The New Normal" and "Everybody Loves Raymond," but it manages to feel comfortably familiar as opposed to stale and overdone, largely due to the extremely talented, relatable cast. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert BiancoApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: If the lines are never actually funny, some of them are amusing, and if the writing doesn't always work in Parents' favor, the cast does. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom GliattoMar 28, 2013
Season 1 Review: Chalke and company are all expert comic actors, but the pilot is leapingly frantic, a puppy wanting love. [8 Apr 2013, p.45]
60
VarietyBrian LowryApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: Goofy, moderately sweet and too rarely funny, it’s a natural thematic companion to “Modern Family,” if not an especially strong one. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: How to Live is decently performed in light of the oft over-reaching material at hand. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanApr 4, 2013
Season 1 Review: How to Live With Your Parents is a fish-out-of-water story, naturally, and thus seems all-too-familiar. But the show is spiked with enough talent (hard to go too wrong with Chalke, Perkins and Garrett) that it could conceivably find an audience. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: ABC’s midseason replacement How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) is dumb and crass. That would be fine if it were at all funny. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDaniel GoldbergApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: The cast deserves praise for finding small moments of comedy in a glance or gesture even amid the show's frantically paced dialogue. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: The quality of the material doesn’t measure up to the cast’s talent level. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyJessica ShawMar 29, 2013
Season 1 Review: A faint facsimile of funny starring poor Sarah Chalke, who really deserves better. [5 Apr 2013, p.62]
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: It is the sort of neither-here-nor-there sitcom that can make me feel faintly sad for the form, and by extension for the health of the nation, and yet it is no worse than so many others that come and go and sometimes, to my surprise, come and stay. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushApr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review: Between the cutesy on-screen captions and an anything-goes sensibility that flirts with child endangerment (just kidding, kind of), Parents ultimately just feels like it's trying too hard. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: The problem is almost everything around [Sarah Chalke], including the title, which is cutesy on a stick. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s got a worthy premise that’s larded up with unfunny, over-the-top characterizations. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: The outrageousness becomes cartoonish and the conciliatory moments so forced and predictable they lose their healing power. That’s what happens with How to Live. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandApr 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: [A] dreadful new sitcom. Read full review
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