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
60
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The truth is that Rob is a rather funny sitcom about the cultural collisions that occur every day in an increasingly blended America. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: CBS has churned out yet another lowest-common-denominator sitcom. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The only times Rob flirts with funniness are when the stereotypes get turned around Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: The humor in Rob is broad, occasionally rollicking, not very clever or sophisticated, but some of it works well enough to keep the show going. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: This needs to evolve into a smarter, less formulaic show before it's worth watching. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 3, 2012
Season 1 Review: There are lots of swings and misses amid the direct hits. And that's pretty much the way it is with Rob. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's lame and tin-eared. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJan 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite the general mediocrity of the show's dialogue, these are potentially endearing comic characters played by (mostly) excellent comic actors. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryJan 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: Rob might be a lot things, but "smart" isn't an adjective apt to crop up frequently in connection with it. Read full review
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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