Momma's Boys
NBC | Release Date: December 16, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
19
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
2
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Apart from the Oedipal twist, it seems to be pretty much your standard "Bachelor"-style hookup show, the women all bunged up together in a fancy dormitory. Read full review
40
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Momma's Boys is truly and sometimes horrifically fascinating, a deluxe example of sumptuous trash that takes the concept of "guilty pleasure" to a new extreme. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: All told, it's the most familiar of reality concepts with all the usual tricks--barely deviating from established programs, patterned after a movie ("Monster-in-Law," anyone?) and relying upon a pithy name to spare the marketing guys from working too hard selling it. Read full review
30
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: A denial of our brand new day is reflected even more egregiously in Momma’s Boys (Mondays on NBC), which arrived amid controversy last week when the show turned out to be “The Bachelor” with race baiting. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 1 Review: Last week, I complained about NBC's plan to turn its 10 p.m. hour over to Jay Leno five nights a week. I take it all back. If this is the alternative, Leno can't arrive soon enough. Read full review
20
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: I once wrote that "Joe" was "far from the worst TV dating show" I'd seen, and I suppose I could say the same about Momma's Boys, but only because I've seen a lot of dreck since then. Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: This putrid reality competition works a racist mom into the mix: So, in addition to a parade of mostly inarticulate, cheerfully stereotypical bimbos--the usual bunch of shrieking morons you encounter in this desperate-dating genre--there's plenty of moral ugliness as well. Read full review
10
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The show, executive produced by self-labeled momma's boy Ryan Seacrest, is totally stupid, but you knew that already. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: Seacrest and his cohorts do everything they can to ratchet up the artificial tension and drama, following in the footsteps of so many primetime abominations that have preceded Momma's. Here's the good news: Come fall 2009, 10 o'clock shows like this will be obsolete on NBC, replaced by five nights a week of "A Man Named Jay" (or whatever they choose to call it). Read full review
10
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: Momma's Boys is produced by Ryan Seacrest--who also proudly brought us "Keeping Up with the Kardashians"--who is seemingly trying to perpetuate a final stereotype: that reality producers are willing to stoop as low as necessary for a hit. Good work on that one. Read full review
0
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Momma's Boys is so dreadful that it effectively neuters critical disembowelment before the operation even begins. Read full review
0
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Executive produced by Ryan Seacrest, this sucking wound of a show introduces three guys and their moms who move into a house filled with women. Read full review
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