Miss Guided
ABC | Release Date: March 18, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyAri Karpel
Season 1 Review: MG is wonderfully absurd and the supporting cast is satisfyingly straight-faced. [21 Mar 2008, p.53]
80
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: ABC's latest single-camera comedy is utterly relatable. Even better, it's filled with the same warm yet witty, always smart and eccentric vibe as previous misfit-student faves "Square Pegs," "Popular" and "Malcolm in the Middle." Read full review
80
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: Guided by an ambient lunacy, the show resists forced restlessness, settling in and fleshing out its characters’ idiosyncrasies instead. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: A sophomoric comedy about high school (and really aren't all high school comedies, er, sophomoric?) that supplies as many laughs as a whoopie cushion in a lecture hall. Read full review
70
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: This new comedy, which stars the wildly talented Judy Greer, is terrific. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: Yet silly and unsurprising as it seems, Miss Guided has something going for it that many predictable sitcoms do not: a uniformly talented cast. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It's a light half-hour of adults acting like teens, and teens acting like teens, that won't trick you into thinking or rethinking much of anything important. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: For viewers willing to give themselves over to whimsy and let go of any expectation that they're watching characters who resemble real-life human beings, this comedy has its minor charms. Read full review
60
Orlando SentinelStaff (Not Credited)
Season 1 Review: Stylish comedy boasts A-grade cast.... But the show overdoes the gimmicks, and the scheduling is misguided. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: The comedy's broad, the characters broader--Chris Parnell plays a control freak of a vice principal, Brooke Burns the former homecoming queen from Becky's year who's just joined the faculty--but there are moments when you can see it turning into something watchable. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Miss/Guided is silly but sweet and would be more embraceable if it would drop the misguided (sorry) gimmick of having everyone deliver jokes right into the camera. Read full review
60
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: The comedy has all the ingredients, and Greer is perfectly cast... The problem so far is the writing. The jokes in the pilot were broader and more obviously than I'd have hoped, but the big isssue is that the writers need to find the right balance for Becky. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The pilot of Miss Guided suffers a bit from being too cute with a device where the actors talk into the camera for narration and expository purposes. Read full review
50
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: The various parts don't quite hold together, and there are too many rough patches to make Miss Guided an unqualified success. It could get better, although it has just a handful of episodes in which to make that happen. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The trouble for Becky and her show is that she really knows nothing, which vitiates what could have been an interesting concept. Read full review
50
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: There's nothing annoying about it, but there's also nothing memorable. Read full review
50
Washington PostJohn Maynard
Season 1 Review: It's easy to root for the very watchable Greer, both as the underdog and as a charming actress who deserves a better script. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Beyond Greer's latter-day Mary Tyler Moore shtick, there's not a note or character that doesn't feel warmed over. Read full review
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