What About Brian
ABC | Release Date: April 16, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
6
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The dialogue ranges from ridiculous to tiresome. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: It's not only unimpressive. Parts of it are uncomfortable. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Like a sunnier version of thirtysomething, lacking only the inspired casting, the insightful writing and the wrenching realism. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: "What About Brian" is "Prison Break," except the prison is a man's feelings and escape involves eluding the warden of his doubts, and we're talking maximum-security misgivings. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: The series is sentimental in a sleek way, and there are surface glints of humor in the script, but mostly, "Brian" is a blander, less distinctive version of "Thirtysomething." Read full review
20
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: "What About Brian"... wants to be "thirtysomething" for twentysomethings, but it is clichesomething. Read full review
20
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: [It] looks like a TV commercial with plots. The people are pretty, their homes are pretty, their problems are pretty, and it's all pretty shallow. Read full review
20
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: What About Brian traffics in flimsy liaisons, soapy squabbles and sophomoric sexuality. Read full review
20
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: Beautiful people, perky and unrealistic dialogue and male characters who have all dropped their huevos in jars of vinegar. Read full review
10
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Season 1 Review: It [is] such a cloying, annoying mess you can barely expend the effort to hate it. Read full review
0
New York PostAdam Buckman
Season 1 Review: [The] characters are so charmless, it's as if they were created on purpose to actually repel viewership - a TV first. Read full review
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