The Wedding Bells
FOX | Release Date: March 7, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
9
Negative:
15

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: The overall effect is pleasing, light, cheerful. Read full review
60
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The madcap action turns repetitive in the premiere. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: [A] cute wisp of a series. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: There are moments of dizzy, semisweet fun to be had on the premiere. But the honeymoon could be short. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The pilot looks dangerously flawed and seriously underwhelming. Read full review
50
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: As annoying as Kelley can be, I can't really think of a better writer to take on an even soapier, wedding-themed version of "Grey's Anatomy," which is about where this one lands, tonally. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Even with an attractive cast and tart moments, the whole remains less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Only two members of the core cast appear even slightly interesting. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Stale. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: The show’s not awful, but not Robert Altman, either. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: An anemic, unfunny romantic comedy. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Even the best home run hitters can swing and miss badly, though - and on "The Wedding Bells," all of them do. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, the comedy is Kelley at his most forced and artificial. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: "Bells" needs to be about more than pacifying that week's psycho bride (or her demanding mother), or it risks being an updated version of "The Love Boat." Read full review
30
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: It abandons all of Kelley's strengths, like the legal setting and male bonding, and drowns itself in his weaknesses: women discussing their feelings, women flirting with men, women acting body-conscious... basically, anything involving the female gender. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Mr. Kelley is a gifted television producer, and “The Wedding Bells” has funny moments, but this series is not a labor of love. It’s a labored effort to simulate romance. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: All together now: "I don't!" Read full review
20
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: A joyless and certainly unromantic mess. Read full review
20
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: This is the skin of a David E. Kelley show with none of the usual muscle, brains, spirit or cheek behind it. Read full review
20
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: A painfully lightweight collection of stock comic wedding situations... that Kelley could have written on his PDA at the gym. Read full review
20
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: I wouldn’t rush to clear space on the old DVR for this muddled marital mess. Read full review
20
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: A familiar mishmash of David Kelley formulaic elements. Read full review
20
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Somebody on The Wedding Bells is always saying ''We need to talk about it,'' to which the reply is invariably something like "I'm not big on dating men I've slept with.'' Read full review
16
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Wedding Bells' pilot concludes with a bride literally catching fire, a suitably ugly ending for a truly grotesque show. Read full review
0
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: It is awful. It is truly awful. It is awful in ways that make the word "awful" seem inadequate. Read full review
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