- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 17, 2015
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[A] thoughtfully lighthearted and frothy comedy.
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Some occasional tastelessness aside--ranging from tired pregnancy-test urination jokes to a few gags that are unprintable--One Big Happy evolves into something a cut above the usual fare. It is brightly written, and tender at heart. Most of all, it is endowed with a great ensemble cast.
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There also are some intriguing twists as these beats go on. One Big Happy may be entirely sitcom-y but it’s not thoroughly predictable.
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One Big Happy is light and forgettable.
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Unfortunately for One Big Happy, the only early dates it can accurately hit are those of a bygone era, one whose fortunes NBC is unlikely to rediscover anytime soon.
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Good as the actors are, though, the show’s run-of-the-mill plotting doesn’t do it--or its long-term prospects--any favors.
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One Big Happy is just... conventional.
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Feldman and her writers are so obsessed with making One Big Happy socially righteous--Lizzy announces her gayness with the frequency of an undercover straight person--that they forgot to give it any heart.
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One Big Happy isn't fresh or funny enough to transcend its message.
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One Big Happy gets worse and less funny as it goes.
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If there’s a milestone achieved by One Big Happy, it’s that we’ve reached the point where shows spotlighting gay characters, relationships, and issues can finally be as lazy, occasionally offensive, and unfunny as shows about straight people have been for decades now.
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There’s very little here to dissect or think about or, least of all, laugh at.
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It's not an unpromising premise and Cuthbert's character, a control freak who's had trouble with romance, isn't stereotypical. But Luke's written as less than bright and Prudence as downright cartoonish.
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One Big Happy is one of those calculated illusions--a series that tries to appear forward-thinking and edgy by tackling the evolving definition of family and parenting, only to filter those elements through a musty sitcom template that predates “Ellen” coming out of the closet.
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One Big Happy is a generic, low-rent sitcom with only one thing setting it apart--and that one thing, thankfully, is no longer all that remarkable.
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An amateurish bungle of a comedy.
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One Big Happy is a loud, frantic sitcom so eager to please, you may want to avert your eyes.
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If the script by Liz Feldman (“Two Broke Girls”) were less tedious, if the acting by Cuthbert were bearable, if the whole enterprise were based on more than one joke... it might’ve worked.
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Obvious, dumb and mostly unfunny, One Big Happy is an embarrassment for all involved.
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An intelligence-insulting sitcom.
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There’s nothing funny about One Big Happy, the performances are wooden and irritating, the setup is completely phony, and that’s about all the energy I have to expend on what is just one big pile of something, but it definitely isn’t Happy.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 27
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Mixed: 7 out of 27
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Negative: 11 out of 27
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Apr 27, 2015
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