| 100 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Sameer Asad Gardezi and his writing partners have created something very different in Aliens in America--and something very, very funny. |
| 88 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Kalyan, Byrd and Duncan will make you laugh out loud they are so good. And being standouts here is almost impossible because it's so well done. |
| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's very appealing. Aliens in America pulls off its absurd, touchy situation by handling everything with a relaxed tone and excellent film work. |
| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Kalyan and Byrd are two likable, unaffected actors (or at least as unaffected as Aliens' heightened reality allows them to be; this show would be a mess in lesser hands). |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The Aliens pilot has some of the funniest writing on TV this fall. |
| 80 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
It is a classic fish-out-of-water comedy that shows a deft touch as it delves into adolescent anxieties and intercultural fears and misunderstandings. There are honest emotions and honestly earned laughs throughout the first half hour. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
The show is consistently clever and lively, well played and directed, its corners filled with nice throwaway lines and small visual jokes. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
This narrated comedy-drama finely observes the particulars and peculiarities of teen life, both in the family its narrator is trying to outgrow and the high school pecking order he's hoping to rise in. |
| 80 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Aliens in America, a darling and delightful sitcom with a social conscience. |
| 80 |
Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
Funny, charming and smart. |
| 80 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Aliens is generally an intriguing and worthwhile show, combining a "The Wonder Years" vibe with a subversive and effective topicality. |
| 80 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A lightly subversive sitcom set in modern-day Wisconsin. |
| 80 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Innovative, daring and--most importantly--funny, Aliens in America is a fresh take on an old problem, the loneliness of being different. |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The risk-taking humor is a refreshing throwback to "All in the Family" and "Maude." |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's a timely look at cultural differences and a timeless depiction of young friendship. It's that rare TV comedy with both humor and heart. |
| 80 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
It’s a premise that in the wrong hands could be boorish and not at all amusing, so it is to the writers’ credit that Aliens is instead fresh, funny and charming in a tart, sardonic way, one of the best sendups of adolescent angst since "The Wonder Years" and "Malcolm in the Middle" (and perhaps even "My So-Called Life"). |
| 80 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Aliens in America is packed with actual jokes and the story lines are tight and funny. |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's slightly unpolished in some areas but funny and charming and a perfect companion series to "Chris." |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Aliens in America delivers the laughs. It's one of the most enjoyable members of this fall's freshman class. |
| 70 |
PopMatters Todd R. Ramlow
While I expected the obvious jihadist jokes and Muslim stereotypes, the good news is that Aliens in America doesn’t just fall into such jingoistic scapegoating. Instead, it shows and complicates the process. |
| 70 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Aliens is very much in the vein of previous nerd comedies like "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Freaks and Geeks," though it's not as explosively funny as either one of them. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Aliens in America is decent, and quiet, and genuinely sweet. |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
While the kids are alright, Pietz alone makes the series recommendable |
| 70 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Because the show is sidling up to its premise very gently, it looks more like a sweet-natured high-school comedy than the risky riff on tolerance it teases us with. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
All is fine, if not as good as it had been. |
| 40 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Despite plenty of surface sparkle, there is something discomforting about the show, and not just because it borrows tone and form from other sitcoms with youthful heroes, especially Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle." |
