Little Britain USA
HBO | Release Date: September 28, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
4
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Indeed, the only real downside of the program is that they've made only six episodes. Read full review
90
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It’s all very rude and often tremendously grotesque, but it’s a belly laugh a minute. Read full review
80
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The easily offended should steer clear, but viewers with an appreciation for outrageous humor are likely to have a good laugh watching Little Britain USA. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: You don't like comedy that pushes the boundaries of good taste, you have no business here. But the material is presented with enough comic skill, cultural resonance, and clever mockery to rise above. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Season 1 Review: The material's solid, but it won't convince the newbies. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
Season 1 Review: The show is vulgar, crude and over the top. The jokes are usually cynical and occasionally cruel. That doesn't make them less funny; it just means you might feel guilty for laughing. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: It's not that Americans can't master the outlandish sketch comedy exemplified by Little Britain USA. It's just that, from Monty Python to Borat to Eddie Izzard, the British invariably do it so much better. Read full review
70
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: The success or failure of Little Britain USA will depend on the prevalence of a particular strain of Anglophilia. Read full review
70
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Little Britain USA isn't precisely the same television show that's been slaying audiences and collecting awards in England and Australia for the past several years, but it's close. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: The oldies amount to a reset button in case you’ve never seen the show before, but it’s a toss-up if the umpteenth appearance of these loonies will make die-hards keep laughing. The new gallery of U.S.-born weirdos is slightly unremarkable. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: If you are a fan of, say, "Little Britain" in Season 3, you will probably like "Little Britain USA." As for the uninitiated, well, I suppose it all comes down to a person's fondness for penis jokes. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Some of it works, much of it doesn't. Read full review
40
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Though there are exceptions and a few bits work, the skits that weren’t funny in one episode don’t become funny when they are repeated, with minor alterations, in the next. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Little Britain's laughs are as puny as its ambitions. Read full review
30
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: The concept and the characters start to wear thin within an episode or two. Read full review
30
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: While I know the show has avid fans, this version leaves me cold much like the original does. Read full review
30
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: If you think "SpongeBob Squarepants" would be funnier if it added a couple of hookers and a cross-dressing junkie, this is the show for you. Everybody else should take a pass. Read full review
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