Making History
FOX | Release Date: March 5, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Colorado Springs GazetteTerry TerronesMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: This newest Fox comedy isn't quite at the Brooklyn Nine Nine's level, but Making History is incredibly fun. Read full review
83
IndieWireBen TraversMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Making History loses a bit of steam after its near-perfect pilot, but the four episodes made available for review illustrate an infectious playfulness and creative spirit. Read full review
83
NewsdayDiane WertsFeb 28, 2017
Season 1 Review: The show spurts onto the air like ketchup spewed from an oversqueezed bottle, plopping frenzied mayhem all over everything. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenFeb 21, 2017
Season 1 Review: A bright dumb comedy for stupid-gloomy times. [24 Feb/3 Mar 2017, p.93]
80
The New York TimesMike HaleMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: The humor of Making History, created by a writer for “Family Guy” and “Dads,” is broad, sometimes borderline gross and pop-culture inflected. ... The jokes are also, with some regularity, funny and endearing, especially when delivered by Mr. Lester or Ms. Meester, whose portrayal of an earnest proto-feminist is the show’s best weapon. Read full review
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Making History doesn’t get everything right. But the series’ principal trio commit themselves fully, with Meester particularly fresh and appealing as a transplanted colonial having the time of her life as a newly liberated woman. Read full review
75
The Detroit NewsTom LongMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s all very silly, but there’s bite beneath some of the yuks. Read full review
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: The show is fresh and amiable throughout, and Pally, Meester and Lester make for excellent time-traveling companions. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMar 2, 2017
Season 1 Review: Created by Julius Sharpe, the sheer silliness of the show is infectious and the performances by Pally, Meester and especially Lester are terrific. John Gemberling and Neil Casey are great goofy fun as those good-time boys, John Hancock and Sam Adams. Read full review
75
TVLineDave NemetzFeb 28, 2017
Season 1 Review: History won’t save the world or anything, but it’s a pleasantly goofy romp through the history books. Read full review
70
Sioux City JournalBruce MillerMar 13, 2017
Season 1 Review: This one doesn’t bother teaching any great lessons. It looks for the laughs, makes its points and gets out. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: What matters is the reliable humor of modern characters trying to pass for old-fashioned ones, and the old-fashioned ones acting modern. Read full review
70
CNNBrian LowryMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: As the lone comedy of the bunch, Making History feels like the more expansive concept, with the latitude to drop its central trio into a variety of settings. That's especially true if it can continue wryly using the past to effectively comment on the present. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Jen ChaneyMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Like all good time-travel stories, Making History is smarter when it acknowledges the divide between the way things were than versus the way things are now, or, sometimes, the ways in which things haven’t progressed at all. Read full review
60
SalonMelanie McFarlandMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s a messy, feather-light romp that establishes early on that, among other things, the past smelled pretty bad. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredWill AshtonMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Bouncy, wholehearted and totally flighty, in ways both good and bad, it might just have the stamina to keeping this past-traveling series continuing for the foreseeable future. Read full review
60
Washington PostHank StueverMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: A likable but largely forgettable comedy. Read full review
50
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: Making History may get a D in real history but is passably funny in a hit-or-miss cartoonish way. Read full review
50
Vox.comEmily VanDerWerffMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: In short, Making History is supposed to revolve around the character with the least at stake, which isn’t terribly interesting, and in every episode it has to find ways to get around that problem. Pally’s a very funny guy, and Dan would make a fine supporting character. But as written, he’s not dynamic enough to carry the show. Read full review
50
Reason.comGlenn GarvinMar 4, 2017
Season 1 Review: Fox's Making History at least has the decency to be a spoof. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: The pilot has its intermittently amusing moments, but episode two, where the trio foments the American Revolution using 2016-era NRA tactics, proves stronger. A third episode involving travel to Al Capone’s Chicago, circa 1919, is fairly lackluster. Read full review
50
VarietyMaureen RyanMar 1, 2017
Season 1 Review: Ultimately, Making History feels like an awkward combination of “Family Guy” and “Timeless,” and it doesn’t quite fit into either mold. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Whenever Making History strings together a little momentum (as in the second episode, where it tries to appropriate the absurdist tones of Monty Python), the gains are offset minutes later by more and more dumb jokes. Read full review
30
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceMar 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: So, yeah, poop and pee jokes. Not funny. Not clever. Not worth watching. Read full review
25
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikMar 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: The humor is low-brow and juvenile. Read full review
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