- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 3, 2013
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The problem is almost everything around [Sarah Chalke], including the title, which is cutesy on a stick.
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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 outrageousness becomes cartoonish and the conciliatory moments so forced and predictable they lose their healing power. That’s what happens with How to Live.
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This is still a charming series, and the cast gets plenty of mileage out of the role-reversal at the show’s heart.
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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.
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Chalke and company are all expert comic actors, but the pilot is leapingly frantic, a puppy wanting love. [8 Apr 2013, p.45]
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It’s got a worthy premise that’s larded up with unfunny, over-the-top characterizations.
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[A] dreadful new sitcom.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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