Rob
CBS | Release Date: January 12, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
29
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
9
Negative:
16

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
People WeeklyTom GliattoJan 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: [A] dull new sitcom. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonAug 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob is a scream, and not in a good way. Read full review
30
Zap2it (Inside the Box)David EcksteinJan 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: There's no on-screen chemistry between Schneider and Bassols, the jokes are weak and the acting is forgettable. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: This isn't the worst sitcom of the season--if you've seen ABC's "Work It" and survived, you can attest to this--but it's far from the best. Read full review
25
New York PostLinda StasiJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob is a slapstick shtick-fest that strains to be "Modern Family," but isn't even close. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: There's hardly a moment or performance in Rob that doesn't reek of the leftover and the second-rate. Read full review
25
NewsdayVerne GayJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Yup, pretty awful. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: The main problem with Rob is that instead of finding fresh insight and perspective from his inside position, Schneider just slams a piñata full of familiar and predictable ethnic jokes. Read full review
10
Washington PostEmily YahrJan 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: [An] offensively unfunny series. Read full review
10
TimeJames PoniewozikJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob! is playing at a meta game in which it transmutes lame jokes about Hispanics into clever commentary by putting them in Rob's mouth, but that kind of strategy only works when the sitcom's world outside the lead character is not equally lame. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Work It managed to claim Worst Comedy of the Year, but surely CBS' Rob comes in a close second. Read full review
10
The New York TimesMike HaleJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Nothing Mr. Schneider has done over the intervening years, however--not even licking his own crotch in "The Animal"--has been quite as degrading, for him or his audience, as Rob, his new autobiographical sitcom on CBS. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dull, dimwitted and offensive. Read full review
0
Denver PostJoanne OstrowJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob! is genuinely offensive. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob feels as if it were written by people who aren't on a first-name basis with comedy. Read full review
0
RedEyeCurt WagnerJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob is clumsy and uncomfortable, not to mention completely devoid of chemistry among its actors or subtlety in their delivery of "jokes." Read full review
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