My Generation
ABC | Release Date: September 23, 2010
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
10
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30
PopMattersRachel Michaels
Season 1 Review: By the end of The Breakfast Club, the kids have learned that each of them is not solely a Brain, a Princess, a Criminal, a Basket Case, or an Athlete, but individuals who defy categorization. If only the characters in My Generation--and its dwindling viewers--were afforded the same opportunity. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The documentary device is often stifling to and distracting from the drama, and using labels as shorthand to introduce the characters makes them feel even more one-dimensional--a device that's acceptable in reality TV, perhaps, but potentially fatal to scripted fare. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: The result? A scripted version of TV Land's cheesy "High School Reunion" that should particularly irk fans of the canceled "FlashForward," which, whatever its faults, only knocked its characters unconscious, not its viewers. Read full review
30
Under The RadarLily Moayeri
Season 1 Review: There is absolutely no reason-other than the sheer good-lookingness of My Generation's cast-to tune into the show. Still, we are rooting for creator Noah Hawley (The Unusuals, Bones) to drag this one out of the mire. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: There's not a moment that isn't ridiculous or false, as the characters continually collide on the street (small town, that Austin). And worse, there's not a single reason to care. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: My Generation's idea, of a documentary film crew that follows a high school graduating class in 2000 and revisits the cliche-heavy, stereotypical bunch in 2010 won't make you roll your eyes and get sick on your shirt. Everyone else--bibs on! Read full review
25
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Contrasting the then-and-now lives of a group of high school students, class of 2000, the show is drearily familiar. [27 Sep 2010, p.56]
20
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: My Generation solves that problem by creating fake people. There still could be a worthwhile drama, or least an entertaining soap opera, in "life 10 years after high school." But not when your characters are all stereotypes. Read full review
20
HitfixAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Of the three terrible new shows debuting Thursday night, the ABC drama My Generation is the most disappointing....the execution is just awful--leaden and predictable and eyeroll-inducing at nearly every turn. Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: As for My Generation, the less said about it, the better. It's an insufferable show that could well be the season's first cancellation. And it can't come a moment too soon. Read full review
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