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
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
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