- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 30, 2011
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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