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
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
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