What About Brian

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 16, 2006
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
41

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 21
  3. Negative: 11 out of 21
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Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    38
    The dialogue ranges from ridiculous to tiresome.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    It's not only unimpressive. Parts of it are uncomfortable.
  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    30
    Like a sunnier version of thirtysomething, lacking only the inspired casting, the insightful writing and the wrenching realism.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    30
    "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.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    30
    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."
  7. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    20
    "What About Brian"... wants to be "thirtysomething" for twentysomethings, but it is clichesomething.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    [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.
  9. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    20
    What About Brian traffics in flimsy liaisons, soapy squabbles and sophomoric sexuality.
  10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    20
    Beautiful people, perky and unrealistic dialogue and male characters who have all dropped their huevos in jars of vinegar.
  11. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    10
    It [is] such a cloying, annoying mess you can barely expend the effort to hate it.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Adam Buckman
    0
    [The] characters are so charmless, it's as if they were created on purpose to actually repel viewership - a TV first.

Awards & Rankings

88
#88 Best TV Season of 2006
19
#19 Most Discussed TV Season of 2006

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User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 141 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 127 out of 141
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 141
  3. Negative: 13 out of 141
  1. SonjaN
    Apr 26, 2009
    10
    Perfect show.... That's the only thing that can get me out of bed in the mornings.
  2. DavidW.
    Jul 13, 2008
    10
    Great characters; great feel. It's about friendshp ... and even if it gets a bit too contrivefd in going for the feel-good ... who Great characters; great feel. It's about friendshp ... and even if it gets a bit too contrivefd in going for the feel-good ... who cares! What about caring? What about considering?. What about loyalty?… Full Review »
  3. JerooD.
    Mar 5, 2008
    10
    Over-all, the show is really great, that s why im giving it a 10! i hope the show makes a comeback!
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