• Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 7, 2006
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 26
  2. Negative: 3 out of 26

Critic Reviews

  1. 30
    The improvised dialogue is sometimes smart, but it often leads to scenes where the main characters repeat their intentions over and over again -- you know, like in a really bad improv class.
  2. 25
    Vulgar and incomprehensibly unfunny, "Sons & Daughters" is a clear attempt to be a hip hybrid of "Arrested Development," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office." Instead, it's just a mostly superb cast being thrown to the wolves with ugly dialogue.
  3. Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    20
    Most of the cast stammers its way through sentences as if awaiting a lightning strike of inspiration. When it doesn't come, the actors have to say something anyway, and that meandering search for structure is what winds up filling 30 shapeless minutes.
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 59
  2. Negative: 11 out of 59
  1. HeatherB
    Dec 11, 2006
    10
    Loved it because it's candid!
  2. MarinH
    Oct 30, 2006
    10
    best show i've ever seen
  3. [Anonymous]
    Oct 16, 2006
    9
    This show is/was great!