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The Return of Jezebel James

FOX | Release Date: March 14, 2008

CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION

29	METASCORE Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews

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Critic Reviews

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer

Season 1 Review: Potential pours from the screen, but the premiere has plenty of problems. People seem to be uncomfortable and trying too hard, just as they do on their first day in school or on the job. Read full review

50

PopMatters

Marisa Carroll

Season 1 Review: This is dicey subject matter (especially for those viewers who have struggled to become pregnant or know someone who has), and at times the tone seems blasé, even offensive. Read full review

42

Entertainment Weekly

Season 1 Review: Sherman-Palladino forces the sisters on each other out of an almost crippling sense of joint self-interest that's as painful as it is illogical. Read full review

40

The Hollywood Reporter

Season 1 Review: Plaudits to Ambrose for her effort to bring some honesty to her scenes, but it isn't enough to keep the show from imploding. Read full review

40

Washington Post

Jennifer Frey

Season 1 Review: There is too little Ambrose/Posey interaction in the pilot, but in the second episode--when Coco moves in and the two start haggling over the surrogacy contract--Sherman-Palladino's knack for chick dialogue shows some of its old promise. Read full review

30

TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush

Season 1 Review: Even without a death slot on Fridays, this strained story would be a tough sell. Read full review

30

Variety

Season 1 Review: Jezebel James might have fared better shaped into an hourlong dramedy, instead of being shoehorned into a lightly serialized sitcom format that plays poorly to her strengths as a writer. Read full review

30

Chicago Tribune

Season 1 Review: Sadly, although Jezebel is packed with Sherman-Palladino’s trademark snappy banter, it’s a cold, brittle misfire. Read full review

30

Los Angeles Times

Season 1 Review: All evidence to the contrary, the show has the potential of being very funny, but only if the writers can choose subtlety over shtick even a quarter of the time. Read full review

30

Newark Star-Ledger

Season 1 Review: It's a very special, frustrating kind of bad, one with the power to actually change history. Read full review

30

The New York Times

Ginia Bellafante

Season 1 Review: Everything about Jezebel feels too broad. Read full review

30

Time

James Poniewozik

Season 1 Review: It's a weird, tone-deaf mismatch of talents, styles and genre. Read full review

25

San Francisco Chronicle

Season 1 Review: Not many women will want to come back after seeing it because the first 30 minutes are a complete and utter mess. Read full review

25

New York Daily News

Season 1 Review: Everything feels forced, right down to the dialogue, wherein the characters all talk the way writers write when they're stretching to set up a joke. Read full review

25

New York Post

Season 1 Review: Even rousing viewers to stay awake would be a big accomplishment. Read full review

25

USA Today

Season 1 Review: Even if the performances were better and the scripts were funnier, Jezebel would still be saddled with one of the most preposterous, off-putting setups in sitcom history. Read full review

20

Orlando Sentinel

Season 1 Review: Despite the cast, Jezebel James is not a momentous arrival. Read full review

20

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Season 1 Review: Miscast and only intermittently funny, Jezebel James misfires on all cylinders. Read full review

20

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Charlie McCollum

Season 1 Review: Somewhere, things went very wrong, and the comedy turns out to be a flat, unappealing mess. Read full review

10

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: The show is a full-fledged Fox flop. Read full review

10

Miami Herald

Season 1 Review: As for the lack of laughs, you're just going to have to take my word for it, unless you want to risk serious brain damage. Read full review

10

Newsday

Season 1 Review: Our mouths may be open, but more likely agape than laughing. Read full review

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