Man Seeking Woman
FXX | Release Date: January 14, 2015
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
ColliderAllison KeeneJan 4, 2017
Season 3 Review: The show’s balance of the bizarre and the mundane may be at its sharpest yet this season, but it also hasn’t lost its bite. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 3, 2017
Season 3 Review: The third season of Man Seeking Woman proves that man finding woman only opens more doors for the writing staff and continues to make the series one of the funniest on TV and certainly among the most imaginative. Read full review
91
Boston HeraldAdam SmithJan 12, 2015
Season 1 Review: The show has acting and comedic talents.... The only problem? Too many people won’t “get” it. For those who do, however, it will be love at first sight. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredMitchel BroussardJan 5, 2017
Season 3 Review: Man Seeking Woman is a bit like the Black Mirror of rom coms. Even with the new season’s consistent story arc, each episode is laser-focused on a single issue at hand, and ties together with a thought-provoking, hilarious ending (okay so maybe not 100% the same as Black Mirror). Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredMitchel BroussardJan 5, 2016
Season 2 Review: There’s a slow build to each of these bizarre twists that lends Man Seeking Woman an uncommon intelligence. Read full review
83
NewsdayVerne GayJan 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: The result is something refreshingly new, and bafflingly different. Read full review
80
UPROXXAlan SepinwallJan 3, 2017
Season 3 Review: It’s startling and impressive how quickly Lucy becomes so central to everything--and how easily Findlay steps into such a prominent role on such a peculiar, funny show. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJan 5, 2016
Season 2 Review: Man Seeking Woman dazzles with its ingenious set pieces, it also manages to work as an emotionally engaging narrative. Read full review
80
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJan 15, 2015
Season 1 Review: In the three episodes I’ve seen, the literalization of Josh’s subconscious fears, hopes, and dreams works pretty well. The show is rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but it’s always engrossing and smart. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: If you haven’t figured this out yet, Man Seeking Woman is plenty weird. But it’s also wild, wily, and, depending on your taste for high-risk jokes that don’t always fly, wonderful. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastKevin FallonJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: As a comedy series, Man Seeking Woman is more inspired than it is flawlessly funny. But what it lacks in consistency of tone and laugh-out-loud one-liners it makes up for in sharp writing, acute cultural commentary, gleeful weirdness, and sheer creative balls. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: Convincingly mounted and splendidly played, the show packs in a lot without seeming to, moving from one weird scene to another while maintaining a kind of emotional integrity. Read full review
80
Washington PostHank StueverJan 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: It’s a live-action comedy that often moves and thinks like a cartoon, to great effect. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniJan 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: One marvels at how the writers and actors keep each succeeding segment so fresh and surprising. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 12, 2015
Season 1 Review: Some of [the often simple but absurd comedy] was lighter in spots than others, but the series has a very distinctive comedic voice and a striking visual approach that it keeps up through the episodes Read full review
75
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJan 3, 2017
Season 3 Review: Like many an episode, it has a way of unexpectedly disarming you with the way man and woman arrive as if by abstract accident at a place of mutual understanding, and the effect is almost cosmic in its good-heartedness. Read full review
75
Under The RadarCody Ray ShaferJan 21, 2015
Season 1 Review: Man Seeking Woman is a rare and unique comedy, but raises the bar so high with its initial episodes that it will have to work extra hard to keep up this pace. Read full review
75
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: I liked enough of "Man Seeking Woman" to stick around and see what other crazy ideas Rich has for Josh. But I'm also prepared to spend long stretches of episodes watching through my fingers like it's a horror movie. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayJan 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: What makes Man Seeking Woman so promising is that it’s such a strong showcase for Baruchel. It’s hard to say whether Rich and his writers will be able to keep coming up with new trolls and aliens for Josh to disappoint, but it seems unlikely that they’ll ever exhaust the comic tension between the sunny Josh and cold, cruel dating world he finds himself exploring. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 9, 2015
Season 1 Review: Once you surrender to the surrealism, the comedy works, but in the long run, what makes the show itself work is the cast, especially Baruchel and Andre. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenJan 9, 2015
Season 1 Review: Man Seeking Woman will be a love it/hate it proposition. It's worth a date to decide. [16 Jan 2015, p.70]
70
VarietyBrian LowryJan 4, 2016
Season 2 Review: Not everything works, but the previewed episodes again establish this as a series with a singular vision, elevating the indignities of dating to an epic level. Read full review
70
The OregonianKristi TurnquistJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: In the first few episodes made available for preview, not every bit worked--it may always be too soon for jokes about Hitler, for example. But the tone never gets mean. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: The show's passionate aberrance can be charming and sweet, menacing and creepy, sometimes enchanting and sometimes deeply off-putting. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 14, 2015
Season 1 Review: There’s no question that Man Seeking Woman is not run-of-the-mill entertainment, but whether its weirdness will appeal or repel will depend largely on the openness of viewers to new, strange TV experiences. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowryJan 13, 2015
Season 1 Review: The sheer acid-trip-style quirkiness coupled with Baruchel’s perpetual confusion make this a worthy addition to the FXX lineup, with the disclaimer that even the FX networks’ most-admired comedies (see “Louie”) haven’t gained much traction ratings-wise, certainly compared with the dramas, perhaps because of their off-kilter tone. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineMatt BrennanJan 5, 2015
Season 1 Review: Man Seeking Woman possesses a devil-may-care creativity that marks it as a series to follow even as it occasionally stumbles. At its best, it turns the ritual humiliations of modern romance into a hilarious pop-culture pastiche, refreshing for its willingness to go for the hard laugh even if the result is a resounding thud. Read full review
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