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Critic Reviews
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A smart, loopy spoof full of Everyman truth. [10 Jan 1997]
Jul 25, 2025
Season 14 Review:
The best aspect of these 10 episodes is that they do lean hard into the way society has evolved, even while Hank’s core values haven’t — seeing the way his dedication to those core values run up against concepts like “men’s rights” is where some of the show’s best jokes and most interesting tension comes from.
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Aug 4, 2025
Season 14 Review:
There is little in it that couldn’t be handled as live-action situation comedy; indeed, for long stretches you can close your eyes and let it play in your head like an old-time radio show — “Ozzie and Harriet,” or “Vic and Sade” for the deep cut — which testifies to the quality of the writing and the performances.
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Jul 25, 2025
Season 14 Review:
By the end, Hank finds himself confronted by the manosphere, confused and appalled that such farcical aggro-masculinity could ever exist at all. It’s King of the Hill as we’ve always known it, a balance of absurdity and emotional realism that feels timeless and perfectly timed. A big part of what makes it all work is the mostly seamless return of the original voice cast.
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ColliderJul 25, 2025
Oct 17, 2025
Season 14 Review:
That Hank is confused, not horrified, immediately allows our shoulders to drop a bit. Even if America’s moral and psychological center has shifted closer to their neighbor Dale Gribble’s paranoia flood zone, Hank and Peggy’s hasn’t. .... These new episodes navigate politically charged topics without delving into the “King of the Hill” confronts progressive and right-wing stereotypes with care and equanimity. Achieving this in a cultural environment as riven as ours would seem to be more difficult, yet none of the humor feels strained.
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The GuardianAug 5, 2025
Season 14 Review:
The old rhythms return almost immediately, for the Hills and for viewers. Often, King of the Hill drifts toward the neat and the saccharin. It’s not a show that will ever hold back on the hugging and learning. But that feels entirely deliberate; at the moment, a show prioritising modesty, tolerance and gentle revelation feels more welcome than ever.
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Aug 4, 2025
Season 14 Review:
The revived “King of the Hill,” I’m relieved to report, does [work]. .... If I have a complaint about the revival, it’s the animation. The show used to look hand-drawn, though I know it wasn’t for the duration of the show’s original run. But the enhanced digital animation of the new series has a slickness that renders it undistinguishable from other animated shows. That’s too bad, but not a reason not to tune in.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A surprisingly sweet, frequently funny show. [28 Jan 1997]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Promising. [10 Jan 1997]
Aug 4, 2025
Season 14 Review:
Line by line, the laughs are still there. .... The show still deeply understands Hank’s voice and character, particularly how retirement fits uncomfortably on a man who always defined himself by productivity. .... [Bobby's] and his parents’ stories often run in parallel, sapping the intergenerational dynamic of the original series.
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Jul 25, 2025
Season 14 Review:
[Dale's] crackpot paranoia once made him an endearing fringe figure; now, he’s too close to the mainstream to make for a lighthearted laugh. .... And other political plot lines are similarly hit-or-miss. Hank coming face-to-face with a manosphere influencer is a little uncanny, but his stick-in-the-mud insistence on food that’s “assigned meat at birth” feels exactly on brand. Time’s progression has a more beneficial effect on the younger generation, who get to be their own people with their own problems to solve.
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Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Sweet and whimsical. [12 Jan 1997]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Debut is plenty funny yet Fox has a tough job ahead trying to lure ["Beavis & Butt-head"] audiences, which may grow tired of the comic targets, or "The Simpsons" crowd, which may find the antics too restrained. [10 Jan 1997]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
For a cartoon, it's defiantly slow, sometimes a virtual still-life. And yet there's something curiously compelling about its utterly trivial everyday goings-on. [11 Jan 1997]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
King of the Hill walks a fine line between celebrating its characters and making fun of them, between being populist and reactionary. Only time will tell if it can successfully negotiate that line. [12 Jan 1997]
Jul 11, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Maybe "King of the Hill" is trying a tricky balancing act, hoping to please people who look down on the Hills and people who can identify their neighbors on the show. Whatever the series hopes to do, it better move fast. So far it suffers severely from a lack of funny lines. [11 Jan 1997]
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