Surviving Jack

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 27, 2014
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 61 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 61
  3. Negative: 6 out of 61

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  1. TheQuietGamer
    Apr 12, 2014
    6
    While I do not find it to be a bad show, I do find it to be a disappointing one. Christopher Meloni is fantastic with his straight-faced, yet completely sarcastic and crazy character. His dry way of giving his hilariously sarcastic lines and delivering his character's more insane moments is a blast. It's just a shame that everything around him falls short. The only other good thing aboutWhile I do not find it to be a bad show, I do find it to be a disappointing one. Christopher Meloni is fantastic with his straight-faced, yet completely sarcastic and crazy character. His dry way of giving his hilariously sarcastic lines and delivering his character's more insane moments is a blast. It's just a shame that everything around him falls short. The only other good thing about the show is Tyler Foden. Whenever he and Meloni are not on screen the show just sort of losses the majority of it's humor and settles on just being passable. It's a real shame.

    Like I said the show hasn't been bad so far, but it fails to live up to it's tremendous potential. Also it's 1990's setting does absolutely nothing for it. There have so far been no clever references to anything that went on or was popular at that time like you would find in "The Goldbergs." Currently there are better sitcoms out there, but there are also a lot worse. As of right now "Surviving Jack" just manages to be a decent time waster. Maybe as this season progresses it will get better. If opinion changes as the show progresses I'll update my review. As of right now I give it a 6.5/10-Okay.    … Expand

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 24
  3. Negative: 2 out of 24
  1. The Lincoln Journal Star
    Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
    Mar 27, 2014
    83
    The humor results from its realism and the blossoming relationship between father and son. Here's hoping this one sticks around.
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  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Mar 27, 2014
    70
    There's a strange sense of distance in the picture here of a decade not exactly in the remote past, but there's also something sweetly enticing about its portrayal of relative innocence.
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  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Mar 27, 2014
    80
    The pilot is funny, Meloni holds the whole thing together and even the voice over works--despite there needing to be, at the very least, a five season moratorium on that little conceit.
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