The Starter Wife

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Season 1
  • Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: May 31, 2007
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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Critic Reviews

  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    60
    As a weekly series, this predictable but agreeable comedy-soap about spurned Hollywood wife Molly (Debra Messing, her neurotic sitcom mojo intact) is less heavy-handed than the starter miniseries.
  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Michael Abernethy
    60
    Molly and her friends spend so much time name-dropping and worrying about reputations, we never feel connected to their pain or joy. The show’s foundational preoccupation with Hollywood does produce some humor, most often in film-based fantasy sequences.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    50
    Messing is an appealing actress, and Starter Wife isn't really a bad show, just a victim of bad timing, and of possibly overstaying its welcome.