Love, Inc.

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Season 1
  • Network: UPN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2005
Metascore
28

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 14 out of 17

Critic Reviews

  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    80
    The characters are vibrantly well-defined... And the writing is smart, with a light touch.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Laura Fries
    60
    An affable new sitcom.
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    40
    Centers on a dating consultant (Busy Philipps) who has no romantic success of her own. Could it be because the show presents her as an overbearing know-it-all?
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    Perhaps, with all the reality TV dating shows pervading the tube, there's not much appetite left for a sitcom about a fictional dating firm. More probably, there's just not much appetite for a sitcom that isn't funny.
  6. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    38
    Overagitated and overaggressive, Philipps is in constant motion; her face contorting, body twitching, voice braying. Against all odds, she has taken a show that was merely bad and made it truly unbearable.
  7. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    30
    While this show isn't terrible, demonstrating spirit and energy if not belly laughs, it will need to get funnier very quickly or risk dying a quick, inglorious death.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    25
    Negligible.
  9. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    25
    [A] trite little laugh-track factory.
  10. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    20
    Humdrum.
  11. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    20
    The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.
  12. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Todd R. Ramlow
    20
    If it's trying to emulate Sex and the City, Love, Inc. misses the fact that that show presented us with complex characters from the get-go; here the single women are all pretty much one-shtick ponies.
  13. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    20
    We wonder whether the problem isn't in the casting but the paper-thin punch lines. No, wait, we don't wonder... we know that's the problem.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Virginia Heffernan
    20
    The writing on "Love, Inc." is unsparkly and sometimes labored.
  15. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    12
    Woefully bad.
  16. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    10
    Each character on ''Love, Inc." is a one-joke affair.
  17. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    10
    A grating comedy.
  18. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    10
    "Love, Inc." is as unintentionally unfunny as "Room and Bored" -- the sitcom within a sitcom on HBO's "The Comeback" -- was meant to be bad.

Awards & Rankings

70
#70 Best TV Season of 2005
61
#61 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005

User Reviews

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User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. KyleighH
    Feb 11, 2006
    0
    This is not a good show. I don't really get the whole concept of what is going on. This show won't make it to the fall schedule for 2006.
  2. vanessaj
    Jan 26, 2006
    10
    This is show is really funny! Vince V. is hilarious!
  3. elenas
    Jan 26, 2006
    10
    I love this show!
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