The Moodys
FOX | Release Date: December 4, 2019
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDec 3, 2019
Season 1 Review: A well-crafted, consistently amusing, occasionally touching confection, as warm and welcoming as a cup of hot chocolate after a friendly family snowball fight in the backyard. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkDec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review: It’s not always an optimum blend of merriment and miscreants. Still, The Moodys earns its candy cane stripes as a Christmas mini-series with bite. Read full review
63
New York PostMichael StarrJan 15, 2020
Season 1 Review: The cast gels nicely, and “The Moodys” was obviously shot in a real neighborhood (and not a studio back lot), which lends an air of reality to the situation, however contrived it might be. Those situations, though, are kept to a minimum, and this is one TV family in which you won’t mind investing six hours of your time. Read full review
59
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenDec 2, 2019
Season 1 Review: Occasionally funny but mostly sort of dull, “The Moodys” seems unlikely to become a Christmas classic. Read full review
50
CNNBrian LowryDec 10, 2019
Season 1 Review: If the presentation feels like a bit of an experiment, the content -- adapted from an Australian show -- is too familiar to be much more than ho-ho-hum. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushDec 9, 2019
Season 1 Review: Never quite as madcap as it wants to be. ... The nicest surprise is Denis Leary's low-key and slow-burn performance. [9-22 Dec 2019, p.13]
50
IndieWireBen TraversDec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review: The upside is “The Moodys” moves fast and goes down easy; the downside is there’s no reason to get invested in the family. Their stories don’t really make sense; even though each arc’s ending is predictable. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergDec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review: The Moodys is the fresher Christmas event comedy, actually generating several decent laughs on the back of its very strong cast, but it's by small gradations and not Yuletime leaps. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubLaToya FergusonDec 4, 2019
Season 1 Review: All six episodes function more like a strange experiment in accentuating a project’s flaws, despite a solid cast and writers who know how to work with said cast. Read full review
30
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioDec 2, 2019
Season 1 Review: Even darker holiday movies end in a place where one is glad one spent the time with the family in question. At the end of time spent with the Moodys, one’s simply ready to leave. Read full review
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