Til Death
FOX | Release Date: September 7, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: A show that is so achingly familiar - in content, tone, stars, everything - that it's actually funny. Read full review
60
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: You won't be quoting lines from it over Friday morning coffee, but it is, if not good, then good enough. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Sometimes what should be dark comedy is just plain depressing. [8 Sep 2006, p.156]
50
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: "'Til Death" plays like a tired reworking of "Married ... With Children," but without the children. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: The harsh reality is that it will be lucky to get the time it needs to figure out how to become the show it was meant to be. Read full review
50
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: It’s pretty easy to loathe this stuff if you like your comedy more ragged, drug-addled and confrontational. But there’s an easygoing red-state pleasantness to it too, a celebration of timeless and consoling suburban inertia. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: The first episode is OK. Predictable. Standard. But Garrett's funny, and he and Fisher work great together. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: The entertainment value in this otherwise rudimentary sitcom lies in watching Garrett aim for front-and-center Gleason-ness. Read full review
40
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: "'Til Death" seems a pretty thin concept. Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: It's not a great sitcom, not even really a good one, and the strain of trying to sell such mediocre material will no doubt get to Garrett in a few weeks, but it's still vastly better than its companion show. Read full review
40
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: At least [it] has possibilities and a good excuse for a giggle now and then. Read full review
40
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: There are occasional funny moments amid the raging comic mediocrity. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: 'Til Death takes predictable, mean-spirited turns, and Garrett acts with off-putting self-satisfaction. His Eddie is no charmer like his bumbling Robert Barone. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The main structural problem for the show is that neither the couples nor the contrast makes any sense.... Still, this being a comedy, the more troubling problem is that no one is funny, starting with Garrett. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Put it this way: Any comedy that milks multiple jokes from a character being named "Woodcock" is pretty much running on fumes. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Without the "Raymond" writing team behind him, Garrett's not so much unleashed as he is uninteresting. Read full review
25
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: "'Til Death's" Garrett, the man who made Jackie Gleason look like a disgusting manic-depressive jerk in that awful CBS movie, seems to be bringing the same unpleasant character to his first leading-man role in a sitcom. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Almost as soon as the sitcom begins you can feel where every joke is going to end. Read full review
20
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: "Arrested Development" this ain't. Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The pilot plot... follows a well-worn path of sitcoms traceable back to when cavemen acted them out with large dinosaur bones as props. Read full review
10
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: It's a lame premise burdened with even lamer jokes. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: This is probably the worst sitcom of the fall. Read full review
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