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Critic Reviews
SlashfilmJan 11, 2024
Jan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"Ted” hews toward a ‘90s comedic sensibility that’s not merely nostalgic but seeks to tap into the inner teenager that some of us never entirely outgrow. That might not qualify as high art, but in its unpretentious silliness, this Peacock comedy is still more than bear-able.
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Mar 5, 2026ColliderJan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Even with only seven episodes, the Ted series does start to wear out its welcome, with the storytelling becoming repetitive and predictable. While it is never boring by any means, one season may have been enough. There's only so much you can do with a franchise about a cursing, pot-smoking teddy bear who lives in Boston before it becomes tired.
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Jan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Its crass humor isn’t a far cry from the films’ fratty outlandishness, but there’s a caution in Peacock’s Ted that is unmistakable. Also, in retrofitting this Naughty Bear franchise with red-state/blue-state warmongering, its revamped politics scrapes abrasively against the show’s more plainly comedic subplots. .... It must be said that Ted has its moments, which has much to do with its cast.
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Jan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The cast does what it can with the dusty material, with Giorgia Whigham a standout as Blaire, and there are some moderately entertaining moments and even a heartwarming scene or two, but with each episode extending past the half-hour mark (the pilot is nearly 50 minutes), there’s a lot of unnecessary material as the characters get involved in trite and predictable circumstances that are usually resolved just in time for the credits. Turns out “Ted” was a bear of its time, and that time was 2012.
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Jan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Ted had the potential to be a heartwarming show with good coming-of-age stories — at least as heartwarming as a show about a pot-smoking, cursing, bigoted teddy bear could muster — but the episodes are drawn out by Seth MacFarlane-style gags to the point where we got bored.
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Jan 11, 2024
Season 1 Review:
If you can push past the initial tedium, the good (or at least less bad) news about Ted is that the episodes that follow represent a marked improvement. Sometimes, as when it leans on absurdity over abrasiveness or goofiness over saltiness, it’s possible to make out a decent comedy buried in there somewhere. If only creator and star Seth MacFarlane could get out of his own way.
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