The Ranch

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 1, 2016
Season #: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 142 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 107 out of 142
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 142
  3. Negative: 25 out of 142
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  1. KinkyKid
    Jun 20, 2016
    3
    This is a bad, bad show. The writing dull, the acting is bad even the laughs sounds fake. I can's pass the fifth episode. I don't recommend this show.
  2. MrsGmidwest
    Feb 2, 2017
    0
    Was excited about watching this show because of who was named to be in it, love all thier work. Until this show. We watch it for 7 minutes and decided we had enough with the cliche and already over used comedic banter. They have great actors on hand now this show just needs a caliber of writers to match the cast.
  3. FogCityRoller
    Apr 3, 2016
    3
    Let's get the main complaint out of the way. A SHOW HAS NO BUSINESS HAVING A DAMN LAUGH TRACK IN 2016. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It does not add an "old-fashioned" feel to the show, that implies they actually went away completely for a long period of time! It makes the show come off as unfunny when you have to tell us when to laugh. REMOVE THE STUPID LAUGH TRACK!

    I was really looking forward    Let's get the main complaint out of the way. A SHOW HAS NO BUSINESS HAVING A DAMN LAUGH TRACK IN 2016. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? It does not add an "old-fashioned" feel to the show, that implies they actually went away completely for a long period of time! It makes the show come off as unfunny when you have to tell us when to laugh. REMOVE THE STUPID LAUGH TRACK!

    I was really looking forward to this show, mostly because I am a big Sam Elliott fan. Without a doubt, the only bright spots in season 1 were him and Debra Winger. Maybe Masterson and Kutcher could come off as more authentic and developed if the writers had them doing more than creepily lusting after 18 year olds every damn episode. Seriously wtf? I guess small town adults in their 20s and 30s have no interests outside of drinking and having sex. No aspirations or hobbies or anything. The writing is unbearably trite and chalk full of tired stereotypes, it's just gross.

    Why does every cowboy-ish role (Elliott in this case) have to be typecast as some technology-hating ultra conservative? He actually saves his character from this embarrassing fate by expressing some authentic vulnerability and raw human emotion despite his battle-hardened demeanor. Just make characters apolitical if you're going to have stupid jokes about global warming and Al Gore to pander to the lowest common denominator.

    Why do the younger actors have absolutely no character development? Everyone is defined by their job except Elliott and Winger. This supposedly takes place in Colorado yet all you hear are random place names uttered by the characters and no actual sense of regional pride. I know this is still just a sitcom filmed in LA, but give it some friggin' authenticity. You know, like how Frasier wasn't actually filmed in Seattle but the characters were still written well enough to have pride in the Seahawks, Mariners, local food and culture, the surrounding geography, etc.?    … Expand
  4. jrob0914
    Jun 9, 2016
    0
    Let me review this show like all the experts on here
    I am a phd in many subjects and one of the greatest human beings on earth
    I have seen thousands of shows over the last 61 years and now here is my review

    It has a laugh track
    We turned it off after 2 minutes

    What a load of crap

    What a cast what potential
  5. KingMongoloid
    Apr 2, 2016
    0
    On April Fool's I saw a brand new show from Mr. Punk'd. I decided to give it a try. Sadly it turned out to be a show with a laugh track. It's 2016. Why do you deem it necessary to tell the audience when to laugh? Do you think that Netflix subscribers are mentally disabled?

    0/10 just on the laugh track.
  6. nickbert
    Jan 19, 2017
    0
    TOTAL LOAD OF CRAP.. LAUGH TRACK IS obnoxious...WOW DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME YOU CAN TELL THEY ARE HAVING THEIR OWN PEOPLE WRITE REVIEWS. THE JOKES AND DIALOG ARE SIMPLISTIC AND NOT FUNNY AND FEEL FORCED AND VERY UNBELIEVABLE, I WANTED TO LIKE IT BUT IT SUCKS
  7. xwiseguyx
    Apr 4, 2016
    0
    I was looking forward to this show based on the actors involved, however, I found it hard to concentrate with the very annoying laugh track. Granted, I love multi-camera sitcoms, but its quite evident this show was not filmed before a live studio audience so I don't get why they would do this. The opening Shania Twain jokes were almost like a dirtier version of an SNL sketch where onlyI was looking forward to this show based on the actors involved, however, I found it hard to concentrate with the very annoying laugh track. Granted, I love multi-camera sitcoms, but its quite evident this show was not filmed before a live studio audience so I don't get why they would do this. The opening Shania Twain jokes were almost like a dirtier version of an SNL sketch where only the writers (high on something) found it funny. We actually played this show for some other friends to verify we weren't crazy and this show is really really bad. Anyone who says otherwise is either on the same drugs as the writers or being paid off.… Expand
  8. odiejay
    May 5, 2017
    2
    I was looking forward to the Ranch. Sam Elliot? Absolutely. But I was disappointed. With the cast, this should have been a slam dunk. But they really missed the mark with this program.

    Kutcher’s and Masterson’s roles were too much like those they had on That 70’s Show. The idiot and the burnout. It would have been nice to see them expand their acting and do something different. Some    I was looking forward to the Ranch. Sam Elliot? Absolutely. But I was disappointed. With the cast, this should have been a slam dunk. But they really missed the mark with this program.

    Kutcher’s and Masterson’s roles were too much like those they had on That 70’s Show. The idiot and the burnout. It would have been nice to see them expand their acting and do something different.

    Some of the biggest problems with the show are the stereotypical mistakes made by whoever is writing this. It’s set in Colorado. Then why is everyone trying to talk with some kind of drawl. Your theme song is ‘Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys’. Haven’t seen anything cowboy-like about this show.

    I love Sam Elliot. Always have. But I can’t stand Beau Bennett. He’s a complete **** Why wouldn’t he be grateful that he has two sons on his ranch, helping him. Instead, he **** about everything they do. Why would they stay? Why wouldn't he teach them what to do? Besides, if those two men grew up on that ranch, at 34 and 35 years old, they'd know the basics of what to do.

    And if the ranch was in such a bad monetary state, they would not drive 15 miles to town to drink beer every night.

    Colt dating a 22 year old? Ick factor by ten.

    Cowboys – true cowboys – have respect for women. Colt and Rooster have none. That turned me off their characters. I have lived my life around true ranchers and cowboys. This show is NOT representative of that kind of life.

    There are just too many predictable plot points. The acting is forced. Overall, just a disappointment.    … Expand
  9. BHW
    Nov 28, 2018
    0
    This show should only be watched with eye patches on both eyes and ear phones that will not let any of the shows stupid lines be heard.

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#94 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

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Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
  1. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Apr 4, 2016
    75
    Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson from That ‘70s Show are reunited as siblings in The Ranch, which turned up on April Fool’s Day with the 10 episodes that make up “Part One” of Season 1. It’s a decent vehicle for both of them.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Apr 4, 2016
    70
    What it wants to be is a surprisingly effective collection of one-act plays that are sprinkled with laughs but mostly dramatic in nature. What it is is an occasionally effective (but always daring) sitcom, filmed before a live studio audience and packed with smutty jokes.
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  3. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Apr 2, 2016
    65
    But basically, shorn of a few four-letter words and an occasional arm thrust up the cervix of a cow, there's nothing about The Ranch that wouldn't fit in just fine on network television, and that goes for both sides of the camera: The veteran, bankable cast. The workmanlike producers (Don Reo and Jim Patterson, lately of Two and a Half Men, as is Kutcher). The cookie-cutter sets. The three-camera photography and editing. The laugh track.
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