Teachers
NBC | Channel 4 | Release Date: March 21, 2001
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
6
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: It has potential. Read full review
60
PopMattersRoger Holland
Season 1 Review: Funny but inconsequential. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: For all the predictable one-liners, pratfalls and canned laughter clotting the pilot, there are some funny riffs down the line. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyDalton Ross
Season 1 Review: Generic. [31 Mar 2006, p.56]
50
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Nothing about the pilot of "Teachers" is particularly eye- or ear-opening. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: "Teachers" isn't half-bad. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: There's little talent, and even less charisma, evident in this gaggle of guys. Read full review
38
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The scene before the opening credits is awful enough all by itself to send you fleeing to any one of the other networks, all of which have something better to offer. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: The U.S. version of "Teachers" has lost much of its grit and feels thuddingly conventional. Read full review
30
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: A lame, uninspired faculty farce. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Seriously lacking in laughs. Read full review
12
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Bad? It's a leech on your soul. Never have 22 minutes so felt like 44 minutes. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Teachers" is never not lame. Read full review
10
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: You haven't seen ''Teachers" yet. But in a sense you have, on every other fifth-rate workplace sitcom ever made. Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: This sitcom isn't wacky in an amusing way. It's wacky in a way that makes you want to see it whacked. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: Easily the lamest new sitcom all season... [it] manages an entire half-hour without a single viable joke. Read full review
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