I Hate My Teenage Daughter
FOX | Release Date: November 30, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
17

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's hard to know why a conventional sitcom turns out to be better than average, with some of the same appeal--mapcap and yet still warm and relatively gimmick-free--as the 1980s' "Kate & Allie." Read full review
67
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Hate touches a comic nerve, the war of independence between teenage girls and their moms, but invariably settles for a hug when a few more slammed doors might be funnier. Read full review
60
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: The hardball banter over coolness quotient is coupled with some pretty amusing generation-gap comedy. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerNov 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: This is less the stuff of a sitcom than an episode of MTV's True Life: Our Mothers Are Neurotic. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda StasiNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: The only fun comes from Pressly and Finneran, who are so likeable they almost overcome the overwrought action. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandNov 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show is passable when its writers remember it is an ensemble piece. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: The bedeviled moms can be bawdy fun on occasion in this broad Fox sitcom. But their unctuous, obnoxious 14-year-olds basically ruin every scene they're in. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GayNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: This feels more like a rushed afterthought by Fox instead of a fully developed premise that could carry a pair of seasoned actors to their retirement, or at least to a big payday. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Having come up with an intriguing premise, co-creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham ("The New Adventures of Old Christine," "Friends") and Ellen Kreamer ("The New Adventures of Old Christine,") are either too timid or too hamstrung by network expectations to execute it. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Aside from a few funny jokes padded between layers of groaners, there's quite a bit to hate--or at least strongly dislike--about Fox's new sitcom. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoNov 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: An abysmal new series, but Tony winner Katie Finneran is a great comic talent. [5 Dec 2011, p.48]
33
HitfixAlan SepinwallNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: With the show so half-hearted about its subject matter, Teenage Daughter has to lean on the hackiest of punchlines. Read full review
33
Washington PostHank StueverSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It was too much like what you see in an afternoon at Tyson's Corner. Read full review
30
Zap2it (Inside the Box)David EcksteinNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: It quickly devolves into borderline slapstick comedy that was old when the Three Stooges were doing it. Read full review
30
PopMattersMichael AbernethyNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: I Hate My Teenage Daughter offers precious few chuckles and lots of angst and argument. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: It should be funnier, but aptly enough, the pilot fails by also clumsily trying too hard, pushing what should be lighthearted portraits of insecure, inadequate mothers into grotesque caricatures. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowryNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: That foundation [of reality-based underpinnings], however, pretty much crumbles amid the broad tone, constant squabbling and improbabilities. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: You're left with a show mothers and daughters can both hate. Read full review
25
RedEyeCurt WagnerNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: Sad to say, another round of Black Friday madness would deliver more laughs than this brainless new sitcom. Read full review
25
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneyNov 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: We're left with a shrill sitcom that's hard not to hate. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's one joke ground to dust as the moms abuse their daughters and vice versa, ad infinitum. Read full review
20
TimeJames PoniewozikNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: It should be called We Hate Every Character on Our Own Sitcom. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: The writing is so trite that when the teens balk in an upcoming episode at the idea of a Family Night (to which the ever-present ex-husbands are invited), we share their despair. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: There's exactly one funny moment in the dreadful Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNov 29, 2011
Season 1 Review: To make them all screwy but lovable, in the vein of "Raising Hope," requires more work than this show seems to want to do. Read full review
10
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Women are as capable of writing a misogynist, soul-killing TV comedy as anyone else. Exhibit A: I Hate My Teenage Daughter, a shrieky nightmare. Read full review
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