Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Leah Greenblatt
The problem is, he's too normal; the show's ''plotlines,'' as it were, revolve around report cards, spring cleaning, and day-to-day activities that don't exactly rivet, even if the guy doing them has gold records on the wall. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Jon Caramanica
It's one in a line of celebrity-family slice-of-life shows driven by conflict that's clearly contrived, if that, and homespun wisdom one wouldn't wish to hear from one's own relatives. It's a testament to the narcotizing qualities of family life. |
| 40 |
New York Daily News Richard Huff
Hammertime is inoffensive, but it's also emotionless, which is the problem. And that just leaves viewers feeling like they've wasted their time. |
| 40 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
It invites you to wonder why you’re watching a reality show about a guy taking one of his kids to career day at Tom Hawkins Elementary School instead of a multipart documentary about how a young Stanley Burrell started dancing outside the Oakland Athletics stadium. |
| 40 |
Boston Globe Joanna Weiss
Hammertime has nothing so counterintuitive to say; it's the publicity vehicle for a nice enough guy who has become a minor expert in getting publicity. In other words, everything is right there on the surface, asking to be touched. |
| 40 |
PopMatters Leigh H. Edwards
Hammer, a veteran of VH1’s The Surreal Life, has apparently learned the value of reality TV as a means to market music and social networking content. If only the content he was selling wasn’t so boring. |
| 38 |
New York Post Staff (Not Credited)
Everyone here is perfectly pleasant and their suburban lives are, seemingly, exceedingly mundane--which is exactly not the tone you'd expect from a show that hopes you'll return week after week. |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
There are several story editors credited (along with nine executive producers, including three A&E execs), but the first two back-to-back half-hours make it anybody's guess what all of them were doing, since there's nothing resembling a show here. |
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