Kirstie

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Season 1
Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 16
  3. Negative: 4 out of 16
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Dec 4, 2013
    60
    Kirstie breaks no new ground, and it doesn’t try to. It walks a path we have enjoyed before.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Dec 3, 2013
    60
    Kirstie, with Ms. Alley mugging through her role as a kindhearted narcissist, is more like the Ford Focus. If it’s late and it’s all the rental company has left, you might as well take it.... Rhea Perlman is funny as Thelma, but the real revelation of Kirstie is Michael Richards as the shady chauffeur, Frank.
  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Dec 3, 2013
    58
    Alley, Perlman and Richards were far more gainfully employed on their previous classic comedy series. Now they’re in a sense doing dinner theater in Yuma but seemingly having a good time together nonetheless.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Keith Staskiewicz
    Nov 27, 2013
    58
    The expected jokes about Botox, nose jobs, and Alley's weight abound and are executed with old-school shticky competence, like a middling '90s sitcom that never was. [6 Dec 2013, p.74]
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  6. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Dec 4, 2013
    50
    [The cast] throw themselves into Kirstie wholeheartedly, but it's hard not to feel that they're slumming.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Dec 4, 2013
    50
    It’s difficult to escape the show’s plasticky veneer and misplaced exuberance.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Dec 2, 2013
    50
    The comedy is predictable on every level, which is part of the TV Land formula.
  9. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Dec 2, 2013
    42
    The pilot has some funny moments, but after that, Kirstie starts to flatline.
  10. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Dec 4, 2013
    40
    The jokes, while occasionally funny, almost all feel reheated.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Allison Keene
    Dec 3, 2013
    40
    If viewers are drawn to the familiar faces of the cast members individually (Alley has a number of celebrity friends set to appear this year) and are happy to see them back on TV, then the show is a late-evening diversion at best. At worst--and more likely--it might end up as another genre struck off from Alley's valiant list of big efforts to return to the small screen.

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User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 17
  3. Negative: 5 out of 17
  1. Bobblebeheader
    Dec 12, 2013
    4
    Mediocre and predicable, with a terribly cliché plot, yet a few good laughs here and there. That basically sums up Kristie, the new comedyMediocre and predicable, with a terribly cliché plot, yet a few good laughs here and there. That basically sums up Kristie, the new comedy vehicle created for Kirstie Alley. Why? Nobody knows. She must be doing something right in the business (or doing the right person...), since she keeps coming back without actually doing anything worthwhile.

    Of course, the show isn't just about Kirstie. The main attractions for me are co-stars Rhea Pearlman (best known as Carla from Cheers) and the apparently re-honored Michael Richards (Kramer, 'nuff said) who basically do a toned down version of their most famous roles. Personally I'm glad to see Richards back (one bad joke doesn't wipe out a legendary performance in one of the best sitcoms ever), even though he is basically a toned down and more cohered version of Kramer.

    The rest of the cast can't impress me, and the humour is a bit...lame. It's one of those sitcoms that would have made decent waves 15 years ago, but time moved on.

    I generously give this show 1 full season (depending on how good Kirstie is doing who she is doing...), but that's all it deserves.    … Full Review »
  2. tiger123
    May 4, 2014
    10
    I love Kirstie Alley. She's absolutely hilarious and I'm so happy she has her own show! Needs better writing. But still funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  3. KatMcD
    Apr 2, 2014
    2
    I tried to like this show because of the great actors in it.
    The writing is so bad that the acting looks bad.
    I think the whole adoption    I tried to like this show because of the great actors in it.
    The writing is so bad that the acting looks bad.

    I think the whole adoption re union part of this show is in poor taste, as many people in America these days are reuniting with their birth families and from what I hear, it really isn't all that funny a situation and to think a 27 year old man would move in with his birth mother sounds rather ridiculous and very far fetched.

    And the way they have written this, making Kirstie a ditsy dame.... if you could call it that, kind of makes birth mothers out there look bad too. Just a bad idea in general, and not funny at all.

    Gave it two tries and the second one was worse than the first one. I don't think I even laughed once, come to think of it. There are much funnier shows out there to watch.    … Full Review »
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