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.

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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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