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Testees

FX | Release Date: October 9, 2008

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37	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews

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70

Los Angeles Times

Season 1 Review: There are people in this world who find flatulence mightily entertaining, and they should be happy here. Read full review

70

Washington Post

Season 1 Review: The two-zany formula still works for movie after movie, and the occasional TV show. Case in point: Tonight's Testees, airing on the risk-happy FX network; the comedy doesn't push boundaries so much as trounce and trash them. Read full review

60

Newark Star-Ledger

Season 1 Review: I don't know that there's a long-running series here--even the pilot runs out of steam before the end--but I did laugh several times. Read full review

50

San Francisco Chronicle

Season 1 Review: In FX's Testees, viewers get a good premise gone sophomorically sideways. Read full review

40

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: The crass gags--some of which I laughed at--ultimately overwhelm everything else. Better to dole out the tastelessness carefully, so that each crude zinger has some value. Read full review

37

Chicago Tribune

Season 1 Review: At least these comedies are upfront about what they are: Cheerfully raunchy shows that lean heavily on adolescent obsessions with bodily functions. If that’s your thing, you may enjoy the deadpan Testees. Read full review

30

The New York Times

Ginia Bellafante

Season 1 Review: All of this might be vaguely defensible if “Testees” were trying to satirize the abuses of Big Pharma, or the limited opportunities for dumb white men, or really if it were trying to satirize anything at all. But it just sits there, inert, like a patient on a gurney. Read full review

30

Salon

Heather Havrilesky

Season 1 Review: A show so strange and vile and stupid that I really wish I could strongly recommend it. Read full review

20

Miami Herald

Season 1 Review: Testees probably shouldn't be considered part of the fall season, but let's be fair--it's as lousy as anything the broadcast nets have come up with. Read full review

16

Newsday

Season 1 Review: It's horrible, horrible, horrible, and you will hate yourself for laughing--although I'm afraid you will. Read full review

10

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Season 1 Review: There's no need to go any further. Testees makes "Kath & Kim" look smart and savvy, a nearly impossible feat. Read full review

10

Variety

Season 1 Review: Mostly, this is poor man's Farrelly brothers material, without the explosive wit or glee that would make the raunch irresistible, if not palatable to watch while eating. Read full review

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