Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
It's trying to be juicy, stupid fun, but it isn't smart enough. |
| 40 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
This farmer may want a wife but, in the end, the only guarantee is that he gets a reality show. |
| 40 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Farmer Wants a Wife feels about as "real" as "The Dukes of Hazzard," suggesting it should be viewed in much the same spirit. |
| 40 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Farmer Wants a Wife moseyed onto the air last week bearing the best title of any pop-culture commodity of the year to date and, given its standard-issue inanity, a surprising subtextual richness. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's entirely paint-by-numbers, a formulaic dating contest colored in with all the too-familiar characters, from the butch Matt to each of the ladies, city gals looking for a real man who doesn't bother with all that metrosexual nonsense. This is reality by rote. |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Heavily produced, the series has some ratings potential by CW's chicken-feed standards but doesn't feel distinctive or titillating enough to keep 'em down on the farm. |
| 30 |
Washington Post Jennifer Frey
Finally, a reality show that doesn't even try to pretend it's not a big, cliched setup. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
The American Farmer is more... American: another intermittently nasty competition dating show, with stunt challenges and a ritualized elimination at the end of every episode. |
| 30 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Despite its silly trappings, Farmer Wants a Wife is neither appalling nor unintentionally funny enough to merit sitting through yet another contrived dating show where the biggest prize would be for someone, anyone, to escape with a bit of their dignity intact. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
It's strictly entertainment. Assuming that's what you call it when one guy's ordering 10 aspiring brides through a series of ridiculously staged agricultural challenges to find the one who'll win the right to have her name mentioned in People magazine when they break up. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Viewers should figure out pretty quickly that manure is the main ingredient here, and though it might help the corn crop grow high, it's unlikely to do much to boost ratings at the struggling CW network. |
| 25 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Matt produces two products in surplus amounts: cheese and corn. And I'm not talking by-products of animal husbandry. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport
It's a few chickens short of a flock. |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
American television networks have aired many ridiculous reality shows, but The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife is a master class in televised inanity. |
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