Our Cartoon President

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 11, 2018
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
42

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 3 out of 11

Critic Reviews

  1. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Feb 7, 2018
    67
    The first two episodes hit some comedic sweet spots, both visually and verbally. But if the government again shuts down over DACA, Colbert and his writers will be increasingly hard-pressed to find the funny.
  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Feb 9, 2018
    50
    The series, a purported behind-the-scenes look at the Trump administration, has its intermittent funny moments, and the character designs of the people who populate Trump’s cabinet are entertaining. But the story that’s grafted onto the first episode — Trump has to find an anniversary gift for Melania — is sitcom-trite and reminiscent of the old Comedy Central series “That’s My Bush.”
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Sonia Saraiya
    Feb 9, 2018
    50
    Our Cartoon President excels at mocking media--be it “Fox & Friends” or Rachel Maddow--and offers brilliant glimpses of the inner turmoil and moral compromise of the people around Trump. ... But the show has no idea what to do with Trump himself.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Feb 8, 2018
    50
    The caricatures in the series are great, the voices are pretty good, and the jokes are OK. The only real problem with “Our Cartoon President” is that half the country doesn’t need it and the other half doesn’t want it.
  6. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    Jan 26, 2018
    50
    Overall, Cartoon comes off as slight, dated and unsustainable. Watching one episode is enough to get the point. Watching nine more feels unnecessary. Tuning into Colbert's monologue seems more fun.
  7. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Feb 13, 2018
    40
    In ordinary times a person could argue that there’s always room for another comedian to skewer our nation’s top windbag, but these are not ordinary times. And this makes Trump character’s joke about people “kinda [wanting] to see what was going to happen” with his presidency seeing that “it’s happening more than you could have ever imagined” simultaneously bland and depressing.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Feb 9, 2018
    40
    Our Cartoon President is a fuzzy and facile animated sitcom composed of reductive, occasionally lightly amusing, characterizations of the bumbling ineptitude associated with the Trump White House.
  9. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Feb 8, 2018
    40
    “It’s like everyone is you,” cartoon Melania says. “They’re like, ‘Bigly!’ ‘Tremendous!’” That comment describes precisely what’s wrong with Our Cartoon President, a depiction of what goes on inside the White House that’s exaggerated a tad for laughs, yet still feels remarkably tepid compared to what we’ve already read in Fire and Fury.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Feb 9, 2018
    30
    More often, Our Cartoon President manages to be mean and toothless at the same time. ... The show is just timely enough to be outdated.
  11. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Julia Selinger
    Feb 8, 2018
    25
    The series delivers trite material with inexplicable confidence, as if the writers were the first ones to recognize Trump's love of Diet Coke and Fox & Friends.
  12. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Jan 29, 2018
    25
    Much like the Cheeto-in-Chief himself, Showtime’s edgeless animated comedy pays lip service to its most troubling issue before dodging the problem in favor of inane gibberish.

Awards & Rankings

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#97 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018

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User Score
3.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 31
  3. Negative: 18 out of 31
  1. tylerkellr
    Feb 15, 2018
    0
    A feeble disappointment. Constant ass-hattery and pratfalls fail to provide any meaningful or substantial humor. I highly recommend justA feeble disappointment. Constant ass-hattery and pratfalls fail to provide any meaningful or substantial humor. I highly recommend just sticking to memes.… Full Review »
  2. TJAW
    Feb 18, 2018
    5
    Our Cartoon President suffers from a critical flaw that prevents it from being anything other than a mildly amusing novelty at best: you justOur Cartoon President suffers from a critical flaw that prevents it from being anything other than a mildly amusing novelty at best: you just cannot effectively parody a President who already IS a living, breathing parody of every negative stereotype of American politicians. All you need to do is read his Twitter or watch one his rambling speeches and that's your parody. There are a few good chuckles in the show here and there, but there's nothing in this show that won't make you laugh as much as simply Googling pictures of this nutcase (seriously, just Google images of "Donald Trump" and try not to laugh at the multiple photographs of his many bizarre and idiotic facial expressions, while wondering why anyone would vote for him).… Full Review »
  3. GrimStomper
    Apr 28, 2019
    0
    Lazy attempt at getting viewers by making fun of the president of the United States. It's been done enough already so there really isn't theLazy attempt at getting viewers by making fun of the president of the United States. It's been done enough already so there really isn't the need to make a TV show about it let alone a cartoon.… Full Review »
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