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The Life & Times of Tim

HBO | Release Date: September 28, 2008

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57	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews

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100

San Francisco Chronicle

Season 1 Review: The Life & Times of Tim--is flat-out brilliant and easily one of the funniest newcomers to television. Read full review

80

Slate

Season 1 Review: The show gets under the skin, somehow, with its loose Web-clip vibe and looser philosophy of life. Read full review

75

New York Post

Season 1 Review: The Life & Times of Tim, their new, offbeat, animated series, is one that works like crazy--and no, it doesn't hurt to be crazy to love this show. Read full review

70

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Season 1 Review: Sophomoric and crude, The Life & Times of Tim may be a viable alternative for fans of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Read full review

70

Variety

Season 1 Review: Tim's world is so consistently outlandish as to be difficult to resist, especially since Dildarian plays the whole thing with the understatement of Bob Newhart's old phone routines. Read full review

70

Newark Star-Ledger

Season 1 Review: The jokes that do hit on "Life and Times of Tim" suggest that Dildarian might be onto something really good if given time to fix the slow spots. Read full review

70

Time

James Poniewozik

Season 1 Review: The opening episodes are uneven but show a lot of potential. Read full review

50

Los Angeles Times

Season 1 Review: I didn't find much of it funny, but on a kind of purely analytical level I can see how the jokes are supposed to work, and might well work on some. Read full review

40

TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush

Season 1 Review: The animation is primitive, and so is the straining-to-be-hip writing in this deadpan sitcom. Read full review

40

Miami Herald

Season 1 Review: This is sporadically funny, but Tim is too slight -- the back-to-back episodes are only 10 to 12 minutes long -- and relies way too much on the supposed shock value of cartoon characters uttering four-letter words to be consistently entertaining. Read full review

30

Chicago Tribune

Season 1 Review: The animation is rudimentary and the jokes aren’t much better. Read full review

30

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: The animated comedy, which premieres on HBO tomorrow at 11 after Little Britain USA, is unnecessarily slow and slack. Read full review

10

Salon

Heather Havrilesky

Season 1 Review: The Life & Times of Tim isn't even as well written as that show, and it's far more amateurish and deeply, alarmingly stupid to boot. Read full review

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