| 100 |
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
"Love Monkey" may well be the smartest and most innovative network comedy-drama in many a year. |
| 90 |
Newsday Diane Werts
It all flows from the heart in a way few shows do, unfolding with the ease of being surrounded by people you've known forever already. |
| 88 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Tremendously likable. |
| 80 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
A thoroughly enjoyable series, the kind that makes you smile throughout and occasionally burst out laughing. |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
It's sexy, funny, hip and heartfelt. |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
"Love Monkey" manages in one hour to be both funny and endearing, a more option-rich version of "Ed." |
| 75 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
This is a series with potential. |
| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
There are times when the show feels both weightless and way too precious (that title), but those are counterbalanced by the charm and skill of the cast. |
| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
"Love Monkey" is easy to dismiss yet hard to dislike. |
| 70 |
PopMatters Stephen Kelly
Love Monkey is an anomaly, an intelligent, well-written dramedy for adults about adults, even if some of the chords it hits are in a minor key. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It is so well-assembled and well-played that its contrivances and clichés play like something reasonably close to life. |
| 70 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Unless you're a cold, cynical, seen-it-all kind of guy (or chick), odds are you'll find a lot to like about the first episode. |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Familiar as it all sounds, series creator Michael Rauch plucks most of the right chords. |
| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
Smarter and snappier than one might have expected from a familiar sitcom premise. |
| 70 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
I was initially concerned that this was going to become a male Grey’s Anatomy... but Love Monkey creator Michael Rauch... keeps facile wisdom to a bare minimum, and a certain urban energy level turned up. |
| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
For all the amiability of the cast, few of their interactions feel natural. [27 Jan 2006, p.73] |
| 60 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
To say that Love Monkey is derivative and predictable is not quite the same as saying it's bad. |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Without its classic, punk, and alternative allusions, the New York romantic comedy would be just another ''Sex and the City" with dudes, another ''Jake in Progress" or ''Four Kings." But with its musical knowing, ''Love Monkey" comes off more like a small-screen ''High Fidelity." |
| 60 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The series is well written, and has its moments. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Ed and Tom may be similar, but Ed was plenty more satisfying than this Monkey business |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Love Monkey" does have its endearing moments. A few chuckles, even. But tonight's debut clomps all over predictable territory. |
| 40 |
Time James Poniewozik
As with many other instances of men sharing their feelings, Love is better in theory than in practice. |
| 40 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The premise of an attractive group of friends living and loving in the Big Apple is not exactly a novel idea, but there's always room for a series that resonates with a distinctive new take, a unique perspective or memorable characters. Unfortunately, this isn't it. |
| 30 |
New York Magazine Adam Sternbergh
What ultimately hampers Love Monkey isn’t its lack of credibility. It’s a severe shortage of preposterousness. |
| 10 |
Village Voice Joy Press
Another failed attempt to use rock as the backdrop for an insipid sitcom. |
