- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 3, 2013
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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.
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The quality of the material doesn’t measure up to the cast’s talent level.
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A faint facsimile of funny starring poor Sarah Chalke, who really deserves better. [5 Apr 2013, p.62]
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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.
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The cast deserves praise for finding small moments of comedy in a glance or gesture even amid the show's frantically paced dialogue.
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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.
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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.
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How to Live is decently performed in light of the oft over-reaching material at hand.
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Goofy, moderately sweet and too rarely funny, it’s a natural thematic companion to “Modern Family,” if not an especially strong one.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 17
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Mixed: 5 out of 17
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Negative: 4 out of 17
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