- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 30, 2011
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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."
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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.
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The hardball banter over coolness quotient is coupled with some pretty amusing generation-gap comedy.
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This is less the stuff of a sitcom than an episode of MTV's True Life: Our Mothers Are Neurotic.
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The only fun comes from Pressly and Finneran, who are so likeable they almost overcome the overwrought action.
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The show is passable when its writers remember it is an ensemble piece.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An abysmal new series, but Tony winner Katie Finneran is a great comic talent. [5 Dec 2011, p.48]
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With the show so half-hearted about its subject matter, Teenage Daughter has to lean on the hackiest of punchlines.
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It was too much like what you see in an afternoon at Tyson's Corner.
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It quickly devolves into borderline slapstick comedy that was old when the Three Stooges were doing it.
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I Hate My Teenage Daughter offers precious few chuckles and lots of angst and argument.
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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.
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That foundation [of reality-based underpinnings], however, pretty much crumbles amid the broad tone, constant squabbling and improbabilities.
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You're left with a show mothers and daughters can both hate.
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Sad to say, another round of Black Friday madness would deliver more laughs than this brainless new sitcom.
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We're left with a shrill sitcom that's hard not to hate.
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It's one joke ground to dust as the moms abuse their daughters and vice versa, ad infinitum.
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It should be called We Hate Every Character on Our Own Sitcom.
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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.
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There's exactly one funny moment in the dreadful Fox sitcom I Hate My Teenage Daughter.
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To make them all screwy but lovable, in the vein of "Raising Hope," requires more work than this show seems to want to do.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 7 out of 30
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Mixed: 0 out of 30
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Negative: 23 out of 30
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Mar 26, 2012Jamie Presley tries hard to bring this show to life, but the other woman's character is annoying and the writing is terrible, so ultimately she fails.
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Mar 26, 2012
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Feb 26, 2012