quarterlife

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Season 1
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
4.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 3 out of 8
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  1. Jurgen
    Feb 27, 2008
    3
    This show does not have a very interesting premise, but can work in the right conditions. These are not the right conditions... Shows like this only work if you like and want to get to know the main characters better. After several minutes of the show I was bored and annoyed by most of them. The mostly main character, Dylan, was whiny, immature and neurotic, and not in a way that was even This show does not have a very interesting premise, but can work in the right conditions. These are not the right conditions... Shows like this only work if you like and want to get to know the main characters better. After several minutes of the show I was bored and annoyed by most of them. The mostly main character, Dylan, was whiny, immature and neurotic, and not in a way that was even remotely endearing. The other characters were either unlikeable (the shallow, jerk cheating on his girlfriend) or uninteresting (the forgettable girlfriend who the "artist" Jed also likes, or the actress roommate). The only person remotely interesting was Jed, but even he was kind of lame because he ends up going after his "best friend's" girlfriend, who is bland and unattractive physically or personality-wise, so you wonder what the big deal is and why both these guys are into her. (Perhaps that is the fault of the actress playing her? Her friend Dylan describes her as someone interesting and engaging, but we never witness that...) Basically I had to force myself to finish watching the show, so I could give it a fair chance, but I'd rather have that time back.… Expand
  2. UmNo
    Apr 24, 2008
    0
    Truly awful, unwatchable garbage. A bunch of whiny, amoral twentysomethings endlessly complaining about their uninteresting, selfish lives. Good riddance to this this "show".

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#76 Best TV Season of 2008
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Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 19
  3. Negative: 5 out of 19
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    Oh big sigh indeed. Quarterlife, is just plain creepy.... Rather than developing a clique of layered individuals, as they've done before, Herskovitz and Zwick deliver a small culture of flat, irritating generational emblems.
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  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    70
    Though it soon settles into the standard patterns of an above-average (if overwrought) drama, the first episode of quarterlife may make you regret the creation of the Internet.
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  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    80
    Doesn't sound like the formula for compelling, consequential drama, but quarterlife manages to take these typically narcissistic young adults and make them legitimately interesting.
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