Tuesday Night Book Club
CBS | Release Date: June 13, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
8

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: The show isn't all that different from Bravo's recent Real Housewives of Orange County, although the production values are much higher--everything has an expensive, carefully lit feminine gloss that perfectly matches the homemakers. [19 Jun 2006, p.37]
60
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: Strangely engrossing. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Tuesday Night Book Club" has the effect of making viewers wish to live somewhere less petty and self-destructive than America, or at least the Scottsdale of this show. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Some will find it appalling. Others just may find it appallingly addictive. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: This show isn't diverting enough to be a guilty pleasure, but it has a professional sheen that makes it more like a drama than a reality series. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Season 1 Review: Book club? Please. These Scottsdale, Ariz., women don't read. They whine, they shop, and they obsess over the way they look. [16 Jun 2006, p.71]
30
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: "Book Club" is one of those "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" series. You know, the kind that promote themselves as giving unvarnished looks into real-life issues facing women in a variety of situations but that mostly exist to exploit them. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Since these "Book Club" women do not seem inclined either to read or discuss their books, my advice is to follow their example - and neither watch nor discuss "Tuesday Night Book Club." Read full review
25
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: A line-for-line ripoff of Bravo's not-terribly successful "The Real Housewives of Orange County." Read full review
10
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: One of the more awful projects to hit CBS prime time in years. Read full review
10
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Season 1 Review: Going above and beyond what is miserable about most reality television, "Tuesday Night Book Club" on CBS is a deeply depressing show. Read full review
10
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: This is strictly a cheap knockoff for those who can't survive a summer hiatus from housewives married to, and often equipped with, oversized boobs. Read full review
0
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Every moment of this repugnant product is absolutely precious, if you have a fetish for counterfeit emotions, Tupperware cheeks, ice-pick fingernails, and "real women" who can cry on cue -- without spoiling their makeup. Read full review
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