That '80s Show

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 23, 2002
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
31

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Terry Kelleher
    Jun 27, 2013
    50
    Hard to leg-warm up to.
  2. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Jul 1, 2013
    30
    '80s is full of unlikable stereotypes who were already well-parodied cliches two decades ago.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Jul 25, 2013
    25
    The new show takes a wispy idea and stretches it past its limit, leaving no laughs, no character development and certainly no impetus to watch again.
  5. Flak Magazine
    Reviewed by: Karen Lurie
    Jul 3, 2013
    20
    Unlike its prequel, "That '70s Show," which uses the '70s as a contextual backdrop to its characters lives (and also manages to be funny), "That '80s Show" uses its characters merely as vehicles to display what we now remember as "'80s things."