Same Name
CBS | Release Date: July 24, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid KnowlesJul 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: The latest iteration of the genre of celebrity re-introduction--and one of its more amusing--is CBS' new show Same Name. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJul 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It all comes out pretty well in the wash. Same Name gets fairly close to sealing the deal on the idea that celebs can learn something from just plain folks. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisJul 18, 2011
Season 1 Review: The "real" Hasselhoff tries to fit in with his namesake's family without alluding to his TV shows or his big-in-Germany-ness every two minutes. (Spoiler: He fails.) Even cynically minded wisenheimers such as myself can recognize the show's heart when both Hasselhoffs learn lessons about what's really important in life (and the winner is..."family"). Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJul 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: In the long run, our interest in the show will directly correspond to our interest in whatever celebrity is featured from week to week. Read full review
40
SlateTroy PattersonJul 28, 2011
Season 1 Review: It should be evident that Same Name is as warm and mindless as an idyllic Sunday in idlest July. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryJul 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: In short, Same Name is too respectful to both halves of its equation to be fully engaging by reality-TV standards. Read full review
40
PopMattersMichael LandweberJul 25, 2011
Season 1 Review: Some celebrities will surely offer better material to edit than Hasselhoff, famous and not. Future episodes promise encounters with Reggie Bush, Kathy Griffin, and Mike Tyson. Tyson in particular may bring just enough crazy to the table to tip the genre scales back to train wreck. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverJul 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Same Name prefers the usual bunk of the genre, smoothing over significant matters of a class chasm that is an everyday reality for all Americans with dreamy ideas of how we're all not really so different from one another. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJul 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Same Name is a show made for people who live and breathe E! and TMZ.com. Cynics need not tune in. Read full review
25
NewsdayVerne GayJul 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: When you start doodling on the Internet instead of watching the show you are supposed to review, then either you, or the show, has a problem. I'm going with the latter. Read full review
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