Vicious

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Season 1
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
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  1. BogKid
    Jun 30, 2014
    4
    Great actors delivering mediocre lines. I suspect a number of gay people will find this show to be a bit offensive. I happen to be an old, straight person and I found much of the humor to be offensive. Let's replace "offensive" with simply "not funny". There were maybe two or three genuinely funny lines in the entire 23 minutes of show time.

    One thing is clear. British TV producers    Great actors delivering mediocre lines. I suspect a number of gay people will find this show to be a bit offensive. I happen to be an old, straight person and I found much of the humor to be offensive. Let's replace "offensive" with simply "not funny". There were maybe two or three genuinely funny lines in the entire 23 minutes of show time.

    One thing is clear. British TV producers have no better idea than do those in the US of how to effectively use a recorded laugh track. The pseudo-studio-audience of this show found every single line to be hilarious. One of the worst laugh tracks on television.

    Damn! Love the cast -- pretty much hate the show.    … Expand
  2. foxgrove
    Jul 17, 2014
    5
    containing not an ounce of originality or real wit this old fashioned styled sitcom forces good actors to resort to desperate mugging, and they still fail to elicit laughs. To say that this is misconceived is an under statement. It would barely have worked in the seventies. Dismally leaden and unfunny.
  3. MatthewDon2002
    Jun 20, 2015
    7
    I wouldn't disagree if you were to knock Vicious and say it's hit and miss, but there's something appealing about it (most likely the stellar cast) and you can always grin and bear the jokes that don't stick to the wall of funny. Derek and Ian make an adorable couple.
  4. kunduku
    Jul 22, 2015
    10
    We love this comedy; it makes us laugh out loud, so long may it continue. We are straight, in our 50's and have lots of gay friends and it is one of the few sitcoms that make us both laugh
  5. sortanormal
    Aug 24, 2015
    2
    This would be better for me if it were on stage, where the overacting and exaggerated lines would be more appropriate. The raucous laughter whenever there was a mildly amusing wry line, no matter how well delivered, was annoying, so I'd like to see the intrusive and inappropriate laugh track gone.
    Love the actors and the premise of the show, but I won't watch again. Disappointed.
  6. epbomb1
    Feb 28, 2016
    10
    Vicious is a bloody brilliant sitcom, terrible that a third series is not being made. For years I have watched the quality of sitcoms here in the US decline into abysmally unfunny rubbish, Vicious has been a bright comedy amongst a deteriorating American television landscape with funny characters, solid stories, and very well acted - it's full of humor keeping me laughing! It can only beVicious is a bloody brilliant sitcom, terrible that a third series is not being made. For years I have watched the quality of sitcoms here in the US decline into abysmally unfunny rubbish, Vicious has been a bright comedy amongst a deteriorating American television landscape with funny characters, solid stories, and very well acted - it's full of humor keeping me laughing! It can only be hoped the series will be resurrected to preserve good sitcom television!… Expand

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#97 Best TV Season of 2013

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Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. The Lincoln Journal Star
    Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
    Jun 30, 2014
    67
    Sounding like an old married couple, the interplay between the two is, at times, bitingly and laugh-out-loud funny. But it also becomes tedious.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jun 29, 2014
    70
    Once you accept that you are in for a certain kind of joke repeated over and over again — or three kinds of jokes, if you include those regarding the deterioration of mind and body and those about kids these days — and settle in to the show's rhythms, you find yourself, paradoxically, laughing more easily.
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  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    Jun 29, 2014
    40
    Vicious is Two and a Half Men for pensioners. Some of the jokes admittedly are very funny, but they are ruined by a hideous laugh track.
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