Luis

FOX | Release Date: September 19, 2003

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33	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews

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Robert LloydAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: The liveliest of the year's new sitcoms. It is low, broad and abrasive, but it moves fast and has some of the urban funkiness of the old "John Larroquette Show" -- the one set in a bus station -- and was indeed created by a veteran of that series, Will Gluck. Read full review

Adam BuckmanAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Yes, amigos, Luis is often laugh-out-loud funny - a clich that Fox has my permission to use in its advertising for this show. Read full review

David ZurawikAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Luis is part of a noteworthy change in the way ethnicity is depicted on network TV. In that sense, if no other, it is worth a look. [19 Sept 2003, p.1E] Read full review

Diane WertsAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Most of Luis so far is underdeveloped and oversold. [19 Sept 2003, p.B48]

Mike DuffyAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Luis retains the creaky, cliched feel of a laugh track relic from another time. Even in the '70s, this ethnic comedy cartoon wouldn't have seemed all that funny. With manic Luis, more is less. [19 Sept 2003, p.6H]

Mike McDanielAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Luis is a four-car pileup on the interstate - metal-on-metal loud and abrasive, and just about as funny. [19 Sept 2003, p.12]

Hal BoedekerAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Like Whoopi, Luis just barrels along on coarse writing and over-the-top performances. This obnoxious show is the salmon doughnut of sitcoms. [19 Sept 2003, p.E1]

Robert P. LaurenceAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Miserable excuse for comedy. [19 Sept 2003, p.E-11]

Rob OwenAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: What is it about this television season that made TV executives say, "I think what Americans want to watch in a sitcom is people taunting, disrespecting and insulting one another"?...Insult humor courses through the veins of Fox's Luis, an alleged comedy that provides few laughs. Read full review

Virginia HeffernanAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: In fact, whether racism is a fact of life or the ne plus ultra of social transgression, how did television writers forget how little comic potential it offered in the first place? Read full review

Staff [Not Credited]Aug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: A largely one-note performance that does little to hook an audience. [19 Sept 2003]

Scott D. PierceAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Hurrah for diversity! If only this were a show that was actually worth watching. [19 Sept 2003, p.C01]

Robert BiancoAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Horrific. Read full review

David BianculliAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: The pilot script manages to poke fun at more ethnic groups than the average episode of "All in the Family," but without any of the wit. Most of the jokes, like most of the characters, just sit there. Read full review

Matthew GilbertAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: None of this material is even slightly original, and Guzman - who has done good work on "Oz" and in movies such as "Traffic" - is sorely lacking in the punch-line delivery department. He over-projects, as if he were on a stage at a noisy comedy club, which, unfortunately, he isn't. Read full review

Ed BarkAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: The only thing keeping Luis from a flat-out F-grade is its employment of a multi-ethnic cast. That's commendable on the face of it, although under these circumstances all involved might be better off unseen. Read full review

Michael SpeierAug 19, 2015

Season 1 Review: Advocacy groups pushing for more Latinos on TV may hang their heads after watching Luis. Fox's laffer indeed puts a Puerto Riqueno front and center, but the show pastes together every possible cliche --- race- and sitcom-related --- at the expense of sophistication and, more seriously, the advancement of minorities on series television. Weak punchlines come fast and furious, and so do plenty of off-color jokes that take this half-hour in the wrong direction. [18 Sept 2003, p.14]